And the Ferguson Police should have one rule of engagement:
Posted on 11/18/2014 2:19:40 PM PST by DCBryan1
Following weeks of intense negotiations, the three largest police departments in St. Louis, Mo., have agreed on a dozen rules or policies they will follow as they engage with protesters after a grand jury announces its decision regarding Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson.
The negotiations have centered on 19 “Rules of Engagement” proposed by a coalition of 50 community and civil rights groups. The list is largely a docket of best police practices, such as “the first priority shall be preservation of human life” and “excessive force and other forms of police misconduct will not be tolerated.” In general, protesters have agreed to peaceful demonstrations if police don’t interfere, while police agree to respect demonstrators’ right to assemble as long as there is no violence.
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1. Never be unarmed.
I found that a mixture of cow urine and motor oil make a nasty smelling smoke when exposed to red hot iron or exhaust pipe.
You so need to post this on the pro-anarchy sites.
That headline about gave me a heart attack! That list was a mishmash of perfectly reasonable and completely insane. Good to know the cops aren’t folding on the whole shebang. I hope they hold firm on giving the cops the right to wear protection — that one makes about as much sense as gun laws that attack scary-looking guns (which is to say, no sense at all).
Not a big fan of Dotson, but it was nice to see him recognize this: “We will use the National Guard and pair them with those locations so the public feels safe. The everyday public gets lost in the conversation. We talk about police and protesters, and they get lost.”
The protester’s definition of violence differs from yours and mine
Best I can tell, the protester's definition of violence varies by who is doing it. "I get to scream hatred in people's faces and spew racist insults and pelt people with frozen water bottles, and that's a 'peaceful protest,' but if a cop touches anybody or screams back, that's 'police brutality'."
Watching youtube videos taken by the "protestors" of stuff they're apparently proud of, I honestly don't know how that many cops have managed to maintain their cool this long under this much pressure and overwork. My dad always said that cops would be thugs if they weren't cops; I think he's been proven wrong, because no thug could pull this off, and there've only been a couple of cops who flipped out and returned in kind.
the problem for the kid is that he doesn’t know if the guy is his dad or his uncle
I’d have one rule of engagement: if they start violence, shoot to kill.
Leftists do not regard property destruction as "violence". However, they do define police using force to arrest somebody as "violence".
And the Ferguson Police should have one rule of engagement:
We only need 1 rule of engagement:
Looters will be SHOT on Sight.
Rule one: Police have shoot to kill orders for anyone looting.
Rules: You loot, we shoot. You terrorize, we shoot.
Just messin around trying to make a people deterrent.
Perfect!
I like a “No Tresspassing” sign in a catalog: “Anyone found here at night will be found here in the morning”
One protest group called the “Don’t Shoot Coalition” issued Fergusson Police nineteen demands and rules of engagement for the post-grand jury announcement protests. One of those demands was for the police to ignore small law breaking. WTF? Don’t these people ever learn? Isn’t breaking the law how this whole thing started to begin with? Those people are loons.
You forgot the Moist Nugget - reach out and touch or burn someone three counties over.
Yea but the MN isn’t as effective if mobbed. A semi-auto is what you need for wave tactics.
Realistically speaking, I like to say that “citizens of good character” *are* the police, and as such, have (or should have) wide latitude in enforcing felony laws. This being said, the uniformed police carry out three duties that the citizenry both do not care to do, and take a full time job to do. To do this they are under stringent rules, far more than are the citizenry.
1) A day and night watch.
2) Collect and process forensic evidence after a crime.
3) Doggedly pursue suspects for the courts.
These rules exist because the citizenry recognize that the uniformed police are de facto paramilitaries, that is, having an “organizational structure, training, subculture, and (often) function similar to those of a professional military.” And as such, they must be under very clear direction and control, with very clear and limited purpose.
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