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Skip to comments.Who Needs a Creed? (part 1 of 12)
Posted on 02/05/2009 1:19:16 PM PST by NYer
I became a Christian with the help of a small group of believers on my college dorm floor. As is common in such circles, we believed that the Bible alone was sufficient to know Christs revelation and live as he wanted us to. We didnt recite the words No Creed but the Bible (itself a sort of creed), but we would have sympathized with it.
We had a great fear of the word religion.
Christianity (I was taught) was a relationship, not a religion. Religion had about it the savor of something stiff, dried out, mummified. It was (we thought) the husk left over when the juice of a living relationship with God had evaporated. It was the cardboard container the food came in a thing to be thrown away, avoided and despised. And creeds seemed to be a dose of religion in chemical purity: an attempt to put the living God back in the box.
The problem came as we tried to live out the Gospel in the real world. Its all well and good to be Spirit-led, footloose and fancy-free, a leaf on the wind, when you are in college and you are singing chipper tunes about God loving you to the thrum of a guitar.
But as time goes on and your prayer group graduates and tries to become a local church and starts to attract a few strangers from the neighborhood who arent part of your cozy circle of friends, things get complicated.
Fairly quickly, somebody asks What do you believe? and you can no longer rely on a sort of network of unspoken knowledge that you and your friends are decent folk who wouldnt believe or do anything at odds with the Gospel. You have to try to articulate what, precisely, you believe in a way that is intelligible to somebody who doesnt know you.
And so we found ourselves, a group of perhaps 30 young adults, huddled in a room with a blackboard, trying to summarize what we, as Bible-believing charismatic Christians, believed, in a Statement of Faith.
It was, in its own way, a hilarious afternoon (at least in retrospect). The chalkboard was soon filled with different clauses and points of doctrine, connected in a baffling web of arrows that looked like a football diagram in a Goofy cartoon.
After several hours, we gave it up as a bad job and went home.
A week or so later, the pastor just pounded out something on his own typewriter about how we believed in the Bible, God the Father, Jesus his son, the Holy Spirit, and being a community of Spirit-filled servants.
I thought to myself dimly that it reminded me of something Id heard somewhere, but my lack of familiarity with historical Christianity had prevented me from having much familiarity with the Twelve Apostles or Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. When I did discover them a few years later, it began to dawn on me that we could have saved a lot of time just copying them instead of reinventing the wheel with corners on it.
Pagans didnt have creeds.
You dont need a creed for a collection of tales about gods in Asgaard, Olympus or the Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The myths of Greece or Rome or the folk tales of Germany and the Great Plains required only poets and bards, not creeds.
It was only when heaven began to upset the apple cart by involving itself in the mundane day-to-day events of a very real group of humans called Israel, whom the Lord God had brought from Egypt, that something like a creedal formula began to emerge. Suddenly, something had happened, not Once Upon a Time but to a specific group of people in history.
Moreover, this people was constantly being pressured by its neighbors and by its own sinful tendencies to forget what had happened. And so their history became one long and careful act of remembering, not imagining designed to make sure that their past was not lost.
When the Church began, that need to remember and summarize what had happened continued. And since what had happened was so strange and so fraught with the possibility of being misunderstood in a thousand ways the Church also was immediately committed to creating summaries of the faith that, while initially brief (Jesus is Lord), expanded in length over time to make sure that the broad contours of the basic story and its meaning were not lost.
Thats because the central command around which the entire Church was built was: Do this in memory of me. No creed, no memory. No memory, no Eucharist.
Over the next dozen installments of this column, therefore, we are going to take an extended look at the creed and see how this long act of remembering still speaks to us today in the heart of our Eucharistic Church.
Hope I can remember to post the next 11.
What a bunch of convoluted people.
It's too bad they don't know their Bible otherwise they wouldn't be so confused. The Bible, God's Word is sufficient as He claims it is:
[16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
The doctrine you're trying to teach isn't in the Bible.
Perhaps I am misreading your comment but the Scripture states: (paraphrasing) The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life). You can know the Bible word for word but if you do not have the Spirit of Christ, you only have an intellectual knowledge or concept of God's Word.
The Scripture also says: You cannot call Jesus the Christ the except by the Holy Spirit. (again paraphrasing)
I am not trying to be disagreeable, just making a point. I hope and pray you either have or will receive the Spirit of the Lord. God bless.
Christianity (I was taught) was a relationship, not a religion.
A bit of evangelicalese that I don't really know how to parse. I'm not sure what they mean when someone says that. Everybody has a "relationship" with God, in a sense. Either wrath or grace.
The problem came as we tried to live out the Gospel in the real world.
Another "wha??" moment, if you think the Christian gospel is news, with specific content.
and you can no longer rely on a sort of network of unspoken knowledge
Any bets on the chances of a christological heresy in at least some members of the group?
And so we found ourselves, a group of perhaps 30 young adults, huddled in a room with a blackboard, trying to summarize what we, as Bible-believing charismatic Christians, believed, in a Statement of Faith.
"Of the making of statements of faith there is no end, and much reading of them is a weariness of the flesh.", as the Preacher in Jerusalem said, sort of.
'The pillar and foundation of truth' is ???
1 Tim 3:15
The Church!
not an invisible church!
not a symbolic church of all believers
but the guiding church.
This article might help understand why poeple call the Articales of Faith a creed.
The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor,
in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.
History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535541
Joseph Smith
Thanks for trying to help.
And thanks for spreading our teachings, even if you are trying to prove them wrong.
I think that this thread, a thread about why someone thinks he might need a creed, is not the place for you to do that.
I was directing someone here who might learn what you have been trying to teach, but because of your stile, you have not been able to help her understand.
I think we might want to get out of this thread and let others have it back. I hope the damage has not already been done.
Hope I can remember to post the next 11.
Please do, I have found this one helpful.
Lets look at a little more of the passage you site:
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.2Tim 3:14-17
First, the faith in Christ Timothy learned did not come from a book. He was taught this faith by the early church that did not have a Bible. Second, the Scripture referred to by Paul is the Old Testament. Timothy could not have studied the new testament in his infancy, since it wasnt written yet.
Paul shows how Christ is hidden in the OT, and revealed in the NT.
A few questions:
1. Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book?
2. Other than the specific command to John to write the Revelation, where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book?
3. Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book?
4. Where did the table of contents of the Bible come from?
Thats a hideous quote to be throwing about!
Think about it, ecumenism is about fair debate,
not throwing someone under a bus with a quote!
Especially with a quote that can be played ping pong
Did you mean to say that 2 Corinthians 11:12-15 was a hideous quote? It seemed that way - and I hope you didn't mean that.
Quit playing immature games!
What a bunch of convoluted people.
I am further amazed at those that call God the liar and believe fallible man!
Truly amazing!
It's too bad they don't know their Bible otherwise they wouldn't be so confused. The Bible, God's Word is sufficient as He claims it is:
[16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
God doesn't lie.
Man does.
I see people buy into man's lies.
It is even sadder is people don't even understand who the church is. It's the body of believers!
Acts chapter 2, for those of you who bother to read God's Word ... the formation of one of the first groups of followers of Jesus Christ...a church. :)
Acts 2:42
They were continually devoting themselves to:
apostles' teaching
breaking of bread
I sure wouldn't want to be one of those that looks to man for "truth". You will not find as is evidenced here in this thread.
I understand the "times" we live in. All this Bible bashing and God bashing gives more urgent meaning to this verse in that dreaded Bible that many shun on this thread to validate false teachings:
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Indeed! The evidence is on this thread.
[9] Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Yes, Matthew your words couldn't be more clear:
[14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Few read their Bible and fewer and fewer elevate God and His Words above fallible man.
I wouldn't want to be in their shoes ... as they stand before Him explaining or trying to explain why His Word, in the Bible didn't superceded man's contradictory words. What a sad day it will be for those poor souls.
They were continually devoting themselves to:
apostles teaching
breaking of bread
Home sweet home? (Above)
But only as long as you stay sweet.
This cannot be true, if you believe the Bible! The Church of the Bible is one, and teaches the Truth, guided by the Holy Spirit.
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. John 16:12-13
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 1Tim 3:15
Here Christ says, and Paul reaffirms, that the Church will always teach the TRUTH. So which body of believers teaches the truth?
How would you make sense of the following?
"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Mat 81:15-18
Where do you take your concerns? Makes no sense whatsoever without the visible Church Christ established with teaching authority, and the power to loose and bind. Christians cant even agree on what the meaning of the word is is.
The Church of the apostles was definitely one: "There is one body and one spirit," Paul wrote, "just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all" (Eph. 4:4-5). Paul linked this unity to the Church's common Eucharistic bread: "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of one bread" (1 Cor. 10:17). Jesus had promised at the outset that "there would be one flock, one shepherd" (John 10:16).
Think about it. Would Christ establish his Church to teach the way, the truth and allow thousands of interpretation as to what is the truth? If the Church doesnt teach the Truth, Christ is a liar. If He would allow multiple versions of Truth, hed be an idiot. I dont believe He is either.
2Tim.4:3Indeed!!! The evidence is right there in your post.
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Indeed! The evidence is on this thread.
Its too bad they dont know their Bible otherwise they wouldnt be so confused. The Bible, Gods Word is sufficient as He claims it is:What, you mean like claiming a verse says sufficient when plainly it does not?
[16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
God doesnt lie.
Man does.
I guess you have a point.
The mormon articles of faith are a creed...
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Following the morning session, Richt highlighted the play of redshirt sophomore defensive end Justin Houston. Houston returned from a two-game suspension at the beginning of the season to lead the Bulldogs with 7.5 sacks and 15 tackles for loss. He is No. 2 in the Southeastern Conference averaging 0.83 sacks a game.
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As soon as I got back to Holland on Sunday I decided to go on a little adventure to Keukenhof before returning to Groningen. Keukenhof is the home to Holland's tulip fields, and is a truly breath taking site. I have never seen such a kaleidoscope of color, it was incredible. I walked around for hours, enjoying the afternoon sun and taking way too many pics! As they say, a picture tells a 1,000 words, so I'll stop writing now and let the photos do the talking! Enjoy. :)
St Patrick's Day in Holland
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This is my 3rd year in a row being outside of Ireland for St Patrick's Day, by far my favorite holiday of the year. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, New years…all fun but Paddy's day beats them all hands down!
It is just pure and utter madness.
At first I was quite sad to be away from home, away from all the fun and frolics, the parade, the drinking, the green, the singing, the ceili street dancing and the whole run up to our national day of pride…but after spending it abroad for the last few years, I really appreciate the diverse ways people celebrate all things Irish the world over!
In 2010, I spent Paddy's Day in Melbourne. It was about 30'c, sun shining and every Irish, half Irish or wannabe Irish person was to be found in any number of Melbourne's Irish bars…from as early as 8 O Clock in the morning. Well, that's what time Vera and I started at and there were already some guys on their second pint.It was a pretty awesome day, spent with some Irish friends and many couchsurfers from around the world. We did an epic, day-long pub crawl through out the city planting shamrocks on strangers and jumping on random buses in an attempt to face paint the poor driver. AS it was not half as crowded or chaotic as any Irish city, getting around, ordering drinks, getting food and not being ripped off were all easily accomplished.
Lat year, 2011, I spent Paddy's day in South Korea…worlds away from both Ireland and Australia! As it fell on a week day, an all day drinking session was definitely out of the question! However, I did have an awesome day decorating my classroom with the irish colours and teaching my students all about St Patrick which was a welcome break from intensive grammar and spelling tests! That night I met some American friends for some DakGalbi (spicy chicken and rice cake dish). One of my friends was called 'Jameson', like the Irish whiskey so that was about the closest thing to 'Irishness' I encountered that day. It may not have been the normal St Patrick's Day, but then again you should know by now… I strive for anything but normal!
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NAVIN SHARMA'S CAREER DIED on June 5, 1998.
The Vancouver Police Department took eight years to make the death official.
On that June day a decade ago, Sharma, a Vancouver cop, attended a domestic-violence prevention training program at the local YWCA.
During the event, an assistant Vancouver, Wash., city attorney named Ketu Shah noticed some cops acting unprofessionally. One slept. Others mocked one of the female speakers and drew offensive cartoons.
The female speaker, a Washington State Patrol chaplain, "discussed how her son got mixed up with a biker crowd and is now serving time," Shah later wrote in a memo to his boss.
"The cartoon implies she is a 'homo bike hater,'" Shah wrote. He added that some cops were "speaking loudly enough to disrupt [the] speaker" and threw "class completion certificates in the trash in view of speakers at the end of class."
The complaint by Shah, who now works in Seattle, led to a Vancouver Police Department internal affairs investigation. Investigators interviewed attendees, including Sharma, who confirmed Shah's account.
Two sergeants were eventually disciplined.
For Sharma, the consequences were far graver.
"That was the beginning of the end of my career and professional dream, even though I didn't know it at the time," he says.
Over the next eight years, Sharma was crucified for his testimony against his fellow officers in an apparent vendetta that would culminate in his firing in 2006 and his being branded the dirtiest cop Clark County had ever seen.
He is now contesting that firing in a federal lawsuit, alleging racial discrimination and retaliation.
THE CITY OF VANCOUVER SAYS Sharma's firing was appropriate.
"He made false statements in criminal cases," says Dan Lloyd, an assistant Vancouver city attorney who is defending the city against Sharma's lawsuit. (Lloyd told WW he was the only city employee allowed to discuss Sharma's case.)
Sharma's former colleagues don't buy the city's explanation.
"It is apparent that he was treated unfairly…and he was unjustly terminated," says Officer Jeff Olson, who worked with Sharma in the VPD traffic division and is treasurer of the police union, the Vancouver Police Officer's Guild.
"For whatever reason, Navin Sharma is being sought out and persecuted for things he hasn't done," says Bruce Hall, who retired from the Vancouver police in 2006. "In 24 years with the department I never saw them do to another officer what they've done to him."
Sharma's story presents a dark portrait of Vancouver, a city whose population—and police force—has tripled in size in the past 15 years.
Evidence produced in Sharma's lawsuit contains jaw-dropping information. In depositions and sworn affidavits, current and former officers tell of colleagues committing multiple sexual assaults, the attempted rape of a police officer, vigilante justice, theft, and dishonesty at the highest ranks of VPD.
At one level, Sharma's story is about what happens when a cop breaks his profession's code of silence. It also raises troubling questions about justice in Washington's fastest-growing large city.
If the 207-member Vancouver Police Department and city government will destroy a cop who even the chief that fired him says had a "very good record," what kind of treatment should any of Vancouver's citizens expect from their city?
"There's a very big moral issue here," Hall says. "You've got a good, productive cop who's been fired for no reason—and the impact goes far beyond him."
Adds Sgt. Jeff Kipp, president of the officer's guild, which strongly opposed Sharma's firing, "This whole thing is a mystery."
A STOCKY MUMBAI NATIVE, Sharma, now 52, finished college in India before moving to Alaska in the mid-'70s. There, he earned degrees in geological and petroleum engineering.
He worked in the Alaska oil fields for 12 years, then decided to retrain as an emergency-room nurse. The aftermath of a head-on collision he witnessed in Alaska prompted the switch.
"A family was going to cut their Christmas tree, and the mom and dad were killed in the wreck, and the kids were lying there, badly injured," Sharma recalls. "I knew absolutely nothing about what to do. And I felt helpless."
He moved to Portland, went to nursing school at Oregon Health & Science University and, in 1995, landed a job in the ER at Providence Portland Medical Center.
Sharma met his now-wife, Debby, a pharmacist, while walking his dog along the Willamette River. In March 1997, he became a Vancouver cop.
He was more active than most rookies. Sharma integrated his emergency medical skills with Vancouver's SWAT team, then a novel concept, and also organized a program to raise money for pediatric cancer victims.
Sharma's medical skills weren't the only thing that distinguished him from other officers. Only about 9 percent of Vancouver officers in 2006 were not white, according to city statistics (the nonwhite population of the city was about 15 percent). And he was the only East Indian officer on the force.
For the first year, Sharma loved his job. "I was on top of the world," says Sharma, who still lives in Portland. "I had created a niche combining my medical training and law enforcement that allowed me to offer my skills to citizens and fellow officers. The work was deeply gratifying."
That all flatlined in July 1998, when he testified in the internal affairs investigation of VPD Sgts. Scott Creager and John Chapman.
Based on the testimony of Sharma and others, the two officers were found to have acted unprofessionally at the domestic-violence training session and ordered to get "corrective counseling." They were allowed to remain on the force.
Sharma suffered a far worse fate when officers released a transcript of his supposedly confidential testimony against his colleagues. Sharma says that friendly officers told him he had been singled out as a "snitch."
"You don't rat on fellow officers," explained Hall, who was one of Sharma's supervisors at the time.
The indignities came in ways both small and large.
He endured minor irritations, like being ignored at SWAT team meetings and seeing doctors he brought in for training sessions treated with contempt. On one occasion, his SWAT uniforms were stolen from his locker.
Some cops also broadcast their contempt for him in a more public way. In March 2000, records show, officers hostile to Sharma downloaded a satirical recording of a man with an East Asian accent complaining about his dog being kicked.
Referred to by some in the force as the "Sharma tape" or the "kick-the-dog tape," it was played repeatedly over the 9-1-1 dispatch system and on the public-address system in the dispatch center when Sharma was responding to calls.
In a sworn affidavit, a police supervisor, who asked that his name not be revealed for fear of retaliation, says: "I was driving around on duty in my VPD patrol car and heard a heavily East Indian-accented audio tape being played over the cruiser's police radio…. I remember finding the tape very derogatory and ethnically demeaning. I could not believe that someone would actually broadcast this over a law-enforcement radio."
Listen to the "kick the dog" recording:
Sharma says it distressed him to learn the tape was being played regularly—often when he was dispatched on a call.
"For a long time, I refused to believe there was racial animus against me," he says. "When I found out about the 'kick the dog,' I was convinced."
A far more serious development occurred on several occasions when officers failed to "cover him" or come to his aid when they were dispatched to back him up on patrol calls. This was confirmed by Hall and other officers.
In a sworn affidavit given to Sharma's attorneys, Hall says the refusal to provide backup could have caused Sharma to be "seriously injured or killed."
"I haven't really seen that level of retaliation before," Hall adds.
Sharma says he notified his superiors of this treatment but nothing changed. The breaking point came on April 9, 2000, when he was dispatched to a homeless camp to deal with a Vietnam vet who was assaulting his wife with a baseball bat.
Domestic-violence calls are among the most dangerous for officers to respond to, and typically other officers would immediately be sent for backup.
When Sharma arrived at the homeless camp, he realized he was on his own.
"It was extremely frustrating and scary at times," Sharma says. "The movie Serpico came to mind."
Sharma says at this point he felt he had to take action. In October 2000, he filed a federal lawsuit against his employer alleging racial discrimination and retaliation.
"It was not an easy choice to make," he says, "because I knew in the end there would be no winners."
Six months later, the city of Vancouver settled the lawsuit rather than go to trial.
Jeanne Lipton, then a Vancouver city councilor, says the council approved paying Sharma up to $750,000 if he quit.
But Sharma declined. "I loved my job as a police officer and wanted to keep it." Instead, he negotiated a $287,000 settlement and the option of leaving his job at any time in the next four years and taking an additional $200,000.
Lipton says she thought Sharma should have left.
"When Officer Sharma made the decision to stay on at VPD, I was certain it would be only a matter of time before he was again targeted," she says.
Tom Martin, an emergency-room physician who has worked with Sharma at Providence for 13 years (even after he became a cop, Sharma continued part-time in the ER) says his colleague sometimes has unrealistic expectations.
"I think he was naive to think that he could win a settlement, beat the police and stay with the police without retaliation coming his way," says Martin.
How right Lipton and Martin were.
AFTER THE SETTLEMENT, Sharma remained a pariah.
"I ate in my patrol car for four years and took breaks alone for the most part," he says. "The only time I went into the station was to write reports."
He also remained an object of derision. According to a witness' sworn affidavit, in November 2003 a city supervisor named Martin James referred to Sharma in front of two other public employees as "the sand nigger that won the lawsuit against the city."
It appears VPD brass were just waiting for him to screw up.
They found their opportunity, but not until February 2006, when Josephine Townsend, a former Vancouver assistant city attorney, complained about Sharma.
Townsend defended a client Sharma had arrested for drunken driving. She said Sharma had filled out the DUII report incorrectly.
A VPD internal affairs investigator, Lt. Harry Russell, examined more than 100 of Sharma's reports and found numerous mistakes. On dozens of reports, Sharma recorded erroneous times at which he initially checked suspects' breath.
And on eight occasions Sharma also wrongly told suspects that refusing a field sobriety test would cost them their driver's licenses.
Sharma acknowledges he screwed up. "I made mistakes," he says. "They were not intentional, and I had already fixed all but one before Townsend complained."
In his investigation, Russell interviewed only three people: Sharma and two Washington State Patrol DUII experts.
Transcripts of the trooper interviews hardly suggest they viewed Sharma's errors as career-threatening.
"It looks like it's a training issue," State Patrol Sgt. Robert Sharpe told Russell, according to the transcript of an April 12, 2006, interview.
Although he had received otherwise strong evaluations, and had no disciplinary record, Sharma was fired on Sept. 20, 2006.
"This is a case of numerous errors contained in official documents filed with the court that have an impact on people's lives," wrote acting chief Mitch Barker in Sharma's termination letter.
Barker found that Sharma's DUII reports violated departmental policies regarding "false statements," unsatisfactory "completion of reports," and "incompetence."
Sharma's colleagues, who say officers often make similar errors in police reports, were stunned.
"When I found out what the issue with Navin was, I said, 'You're joking,'" says VPD Officer Ryan Martin, president of the Fraternal Order of Police of Southwest Washington.
Clark County's top emergency medical officer had a similar reaction.
"To me, it's no coincidence that this happened right after he lost protection [from his legal settlement]," says Lynn Wittwer, medical program director for Clark County Emergency Medical Services. "All I can figure is, this is a vendetta, because the firing is ludicrous."
But the city didn't stop at firing Sharma. The following month the city attorney's office took the extraordinary step of sending letters to 90 defense lawyers in Clark County, alerting them that Sharma's credibility was in question.
"Officer Sharma made false statements in some of his DUII reports," wrote city prosecutor Kevin McClure in the letters dated Oct. 4, 2006. "The information may be deemed admissible as impeachment evidence should this matter proceed to trial." (Several of Sharma's DUII cases were subsequently dismissed.)
The justification for the letters comes from a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland, which requires prosecutors to turn over exculpatory evidence. Some prosecutors have interpreted that decision to mean defense counsel must be notified if a police officer has lied in an official capacity—even if it has nothing to do with the case at hand.
"'Zero tolerance' and 'you lie, you die' became common in the language of police discipline," writes Michael Stone, a California lawyer serving as an expert witness in Sharma's case. "The decision to 'Brady' an officer in many cases signals the end of the officer's career."
It's a dramatic move, one that brands the cop as irreparably dirty. And never before, according to the Vancouver city attorney's office, had it sent out a Brady letter.
"I've never heard it being used here before," says Jeff Barrar, a lawyer who runs Vancouver Defenders, which handles most publicly funded legal defense in Clark County.
Barrar says he's surprised that prosecutors went after Sharma.
"I knew him before, during and after he was a cop," Barrar says. "He is honest to a fault and as honorable a man as I've ever known."
Stone says the key issue for a Brady determination is whether an officer intentionally lied.
"It must be apparent that the officer intended to deceive in a material way," he says.
Not even critics eager to get rid of Sharma went so far as that.
"Do you believe that Navin Sharma was intentionally inserting lies into his DUI reports?" McClure, the Vancouver city prosecutor who sent Sharma's Brady notices, was asked in a May 19, 2008, deposition.
"No," McClure responded.
The city's pursuit of Sharma extended beyond the Brady notices, however.
On Oct. 26, 2006, Gathe, the Vancouver city attorney, asked Clark County Prosecutor Art Curtis to consider charging Sharma criminally.
Curtis declined and, in a deposition last month, said, "I don't recall any other times when [the city attorney] has sent me a letter asking me to review a [police officer's] case for criminal charges."
PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE VANCOUVER POLICE offer a variety of explanations for Sharma's aborted career.
Hall says Sharma offended the good-ol'-boy network.
"I think it's a power issue more than a racial issue," Hall says. "If you don't do what they want, they'll get you."
Lipton, the former city councilor, says Sharma's termination was "predictable and consistent with the retaliatory culture within city government and VPD."
Will Aitchison, who has represented the Portland Police Association for 30 years, says the police force to the north is known for turnover at the top.
When current Chief Clifford Cook was hired in 2007, he became VPD's fourth leader in seven years—and the first in two decades hired from outside Clark County.
The department "is viewed as a pretty professional outfit, but it has been beset by pretty significant management problems," Aitchison says.
Today, Sharma is working regular shifts at Providence and preparing for an October trial date.
Ironically, one of the officers against whom Sharma testified in 1998 sides with him.
"Officer Sharma's firing was not for just cause," wrote Sgt. Scott Creager in a Nov. 23, 2006, letter to Barker, the former acting police chief.
"At most Officer Sharma's self-corrected errors might be used as a training opportunity, but did not support [any] discipline under the just cause standard, let alone discharge."
The Non-Brady Bunch
Vancouver's pursuit of Sharma is all the more surprising given the number of other officers who have allegedly committed more serious offenses but received lighter punishment and weren't subject to a career-damaging "Brady letter."
• In 2003, records show, allegations arose that Officer John Steigleder had sexually assaulted women while on duty. Then-VPD Chief Brian Martinek testified in a June 2008 deposition there was reason to believe Steigleder had committed the assaults. Steigleder denied any wrongdoing at the time. Rather than firing him, VPD allowed Steigleder to resign. He did not return WW's call.
• In 2004, VPD internal affairs records show, Vancouver police Lt. Howard Anderson attempted to sexually assault a subordinate female officer during a training visit to Phoenix. Investigators subsequently found Anderson had exhibited similar behavior on a 2003 trip to Long Beach, Calif., with another female subordinate. "Your words and actions were offensive and shocking," wrote Martinek, now an assistant chief in Portland. "The conduct exhibited in Long Beach and Phoenix included acts that could be criminal in nature." Anderson, whom WW was unable to contact, told investigators he couldn't remember the incidents because he was drunk. He was fired, but his termination form indicated a less serious offense than Sharma's. The female officers declined to press charges against Anderson.
• In February 2004, another VPD officer, Paul Fisk, pulled a gun on a motorist in an off-duty road-rage incident. When questioned, Fisk denied having threatened the motorist. Unfortunately for Fisk, the motorist's cell phone transmitted the conversation to a 9-1-1 center, where it was recorded. "I'm a cop. That's why I put my gun in your face," Fisk told the motorist. "Shut the fuck up or I'm going to blow your ass on the ground." Fisk received a reprimand. He is still employed at VPD.
• In 2006, allegations arose that Sgt. Shane Yates was running an outside business on city time and stealing Harley-Davidson motorcycle parts from the city. He was allowed to resign. Yates did not return WW's call.
Assistant City Attorney Dan Lloyd says it is impossible to compare other officers' cases to Sharma's, but there is one big difference: "Sharma's false statements were in actual criminal cases," he says.
• Perhaps the most eye-catching offense, however, occurred at the top of VPD. On Sept. 18, 2006, two days before then-acting chief Mitch Barker fired Sharma, Barker received a "written reprimand" from Vancouver City Manager Pat McDonnell for improperly obtaining interview questions prior to being hired as assistant chief almost four years earlier.
"In July," the reprimand states, "the City initiated an investigation regarding allegations that you acted improperly with regard to your knowledge of interview questions provided to you when you participated in the recruitment process for Assistant Chief of Police in late 2002 and early 2003. You neglected to notify anyone in the City that you had been improperly sent this information…. Additionally, you neglected to notify anyone within the City that you believed you had been provided with the interview questions subsequent to your hire date."
In a deposition taken June 2, Barker explained he had simply forgotten about receiving the questions in advance of his job interview.
"I put it out of my mind," said Barker, who is today assistant chief of VPD. "I just didn't think about it again."
Lloyd says Barker, who declined to comment to WW, remains a high-ranking officer because he merely "showed poor judgment," Lloyd says. "What he did has nothing to do with integrity."
In 2005, the last year before things really went sour with the Vancouver Police Department, Sharma earned more than $100,000 and helped to write the first textbook about Tactical Emergency Medicine.
In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals slammed the city of Vancouver and supervisor Mark Tanninen for their handing of a discrimination complaint lodged by former city employee Rolando Hernandez. "A conspiracy existed…to cover up the investigation of race-based hostility," the court said.
Holly Starr, a Clark County 9-1-1 operator who reported the "kick-the-dog tape," was fired and subsequently won a $260,000 whistle-blower settlement.
Last month, an arbitrator found that Barker, who fired Sharma, had overseen a shoddy investigation and unfair firing of VPD Lt. Doug Luse.


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