Posted on 05/05/2015 2:34:28 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
A police officer said to me, "Ninety-eight percent of the people in the world are sorry S.O.B.'s and the two percent that are good are cops." He didn't include anyone above the rank of sergeant in the two percent and only about half of them were included. An extreme statement? Yes! A unique attitude? No! That officer succinctly stated a common conclusion of a prevalent value system in police-the tribal value system in the world of police stress. Ethics in law enforcement related to police stress has become a popular topic in police literature and courses, and I am glad. Ethical behavior by police is important-more, it is crucial. But I am concerned about the approach taken in the articles I have read and the seminars I have attended. The approach has followed a legal model. Authorities make pronouncements about how officers "shall" or "will" behave and what they "shall not" or "will not" do. The language is in the imperative voice with an expectation that officers will follow these ethical imperatives because they have been officially stated. The motivation for following is similar to obeying the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at realpolice.net ...
Any member of any fraternity, profession or organization is only as good as the worst behavior they tolerate. Cops who won’t inform on bad ones, members of a religion that know of the unethical actions of fellow believers, protesters who don’t ‘snitch’ when they know who the rioters are, Union members who tolerate corruption, anyone who doesn’t report a violation of the Geneva accords- none of them deserve any more respect than the members who actually transgress and deserve no sympathy or understanding if they gripe about being ‘tarred with the same brush’
Have there been any threads on this one?
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/05/04/cop-gets-slap-on-wrist-for-slugging-handcuffed-woman/
Blood is thicker than water...abd blue is thicker than blood.
Right, the misdeeds of the minority could not exist without the tacit consent of the majority.
Being a cop is a noble profession, but prolonged contact with scum can be soul-destroying.
That says it better than I could.
How many cops know who the dirty ones are and say nothing? How many peaceful protesters know who the rioters and looters are?
Shooting dogs is stressful...
“Any member of any fraternity, profession or organization is only as good as the worst behavior they tolerate.”
+1 A notion I was trying to put into words earlier but failed, Thank you.
In a nutshell, that’s what we’ve come down to as a society. I am astonished at the fact that nobody rushes to defend the bureaucrats at the IRS or the EPA or TSA or DOJ for all their abuse they’ve heaped upon us, yet they come running to defend the cops — who for all intent and purpose are just the same bureaucrats with a gun.
Get off your butts and elect a pro-2nd amendment, Constitutional sheriff, and you won’t have problems with rogue cops. We have a constitutional sheriff in my county. He’s run two police chiefs out of the county in the past five years who were abusing their office. An elected sheriff has the legal and armed muscle to take on fascists.
Libertarian ping
I’ll bet a lot of government agencies have this kind of outlook.
“How many cops know who the dirty ones are and say nothing? How many peaceful protesters know who the rioters and looters are?”
They have to know, at least some of them know, probably the majority. Take the example of guerrilla warfare, I think it’s comparable, because you have a minority (the guerrillas) committing some renegade acts while hiding among a majority (the citizens) who don’t engage in those acts and at least ostensibly decry them.
Well, when you look at the history of those actions, the only ones that are ever successful are where the majority of the citizens sympathize with the guerrillas politically. If the population is evenly divided, or tilted against the guerrillas, then the guerrillas inevitably fail. They simply can’t operate unless the majority is willing to look the other way, and even suffer consequences themselves for the actions of the minority.
“citizens sympathize with the guerrillas politically”
Or fear. Fear wielded properly can be quite convincing.
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