In San Diego county, law enforcement has earned this lack of trust by Hispanics and other "minority" cultures. Year after year, you hear of the San Diego Sheriff and San Diego Police shooting suspects and being let off the hook by the D.A.'s office. It's well known that both the Sheriff's dept. and the police dept. lack bilingual officers as well, in a border county where Spanish is pretty much the dominate language! Many "suspects" are often caught on the raw end of a police beat down, mainly because they don't speak English and can't understand the commands. San Diego has a "shoot first" policy if you ask the average joe in the street. It's a shame that in America's Finest City, we have to watch our backs for the police and the criminals.

Clearly the scope of the issue here is far reaching beyond this comment, whoever, we obviously need to work on education in San Diego. I don't have to be a genius to say education is key to true understanding. We can't hire biglingual police officers if there aren't any applying for the jobs. Likewise, hispanics in San Diego, CA USA should learn a few more words of the English language before trying to "make it" in an English speaking country. I am fluent in Spanish and English and I would never have moved to a Spanish speaking country before learning a large portion of vocabulary and phrases in the language of the country I lived in.

It is a shame that citizens have to watch out for both criminals and police. I also think great point that individual's should learn a majority of English before coming to live in the USA, but a shoot first policy is absolutly wrong. It disgusted me.