Posted on 02/12/2011 8:11:12 AM PST by Immerito
TELL IT TO CHIEF MOOSE!!!
Unfortunately our educational system is incapable of producing level headed competent thinkers. Our technical schools and colleges who churn out cops would experience such a lack of interest in policing if they held to such principles that they would fold.
Most of what they are taught runs the exact opposites of those principles you provided.
Why be a cop if you can't beat on the public, shoot their dogs and grandpa, threaten their children in schools, tazer uncle Bob taking a walk, shoot wood carvers, and be the only one who gets to drive drunk with his friends?
We would have fewer, but better, peace officers if this were followed.
How interesting. I’d never seen this before, but thinking back to every speeding ticket I’ve gotten - none of those officers had ever seen this either. All of them took the opportunity to toss in their own personal opinions on what had just transpired and I always had a sneaking suspicion their job was simply to inform me of the violation, write a ticket, and be on their way.
After leaving Montgomery County, he went to the National Guard for a year. Then he went to the Hawaii Police Academy in 2004. He then left the Hawaii Police Dept in 2005 and is retired in North Carolina.
He was a walking time bomb starting from his days as a police Chief in Washington State where Janet Reno praised his work to stop racial profiling.
When policing is done right, it’s boring work. Kinda like being a pilot. Eneventful means done right.
Kinda prophetic isn't it?
Uneventful............
Sadly, yes. We need conservative peace officers to take a stand for Peelian principles.
The (British) public attitude toward police, and this basic policing philosophy is the reason that Bobbies are traditionally not allowed firearms while on duty. It is NOT because the British are more civil, less violent, or the British public approves of gun control, (they do not), as so many socialist gun grabbing tyrants purport.
It is because the British believe that government employees carrying guns are nothing more than tyrants while subjects carrying guns are nothing more than free men.
Thank you, Navy Patriot. That is interesting. :-)
Great post - Thanks!
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting on that to happen any time soon...
Whenever I bump into Brit tourists, I bid them welcome and thank them for the Magna Carta. They often don't understand until they think back on their own history.
In that document, John of England agreed and stipulated that the King was NOT above the law, (among other reforms).
Equality under law (and the government must also obey the law), the basis of all western society.
People are police only when we are responsible.
It seems an extraneous ‘w’ believed that its presence in the word ‘examiner’ was needed in your URL. No offense meant to the letter ‘w’, but its presence prevents one from arriving at the article. ;-)
There are so many reasons NOT to like Moose. He wrote a book on the sniper events and used many private discussions and personal info about the victims and their families. The families were completely exploited as a means to make him money. (just another Montgomery County citizens who is glad he is gone). IMHO
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