Gee, I didn't know you were making the rules for this topic.
I realize that you are trained to take control of situations, but save that for the job, ok?
It's my topic, I started it, and if I want to bring politics into it, I will.
You don't want me to bring politics into it, not because it's irrelevant (it is very relevant), but because you don't feel comfortable discussing politics as related to police issues.
It's all about power, isn't it? Who polices the police?
You bring up cases where departments have been sued. Very nice. I might suggest that a little keeping the department in order would go a long
way towards making sure that those cases don't get won. (They are, after all, determined by a jury, are they not?) But, of course, that would require admitting that the department isn't perfect,
which you can't do because you want people to (1)fear and (2)respect the police (and are trained to make them do that via psychological techniques).
"conventional wisdom" is that people don't fear and respect that which has admitted it has flaws.
Am I now getting to the crux of the matter here?
Apparently someone has recognized a problem, since "community policing" seems to be an attempt to improve the public image of the police.
Brian
Originally posted by Sandman333:
Sure, there is politics in any form of Government. However, you are attempting to slyly change the focus of the discussion here. Sorry, not going to work. That post of yours that I referenced was a troll, plain and simple.
