Posts by truth_b_known

It is hard for me to comprehend how a narcissistic organization that is obsessed with its on image would put Lett out in front as a spokesperson.

I have been out for over a decade. I started to fade in my early thirties and was completely out by 35. I found that people I grew up with were mostly in, but only for show and family. Most of their children got out right after high school.

I know that assembly hall. That is about 1/6th the seating in the auditorium. There is a massive dining area. There is also a paved walkway that you can walk outside that goes around the property like a nature walk. That assembly hall is out in the middle of nowhere and is surround by wild lands as far as the eye can see.

I think our veterans would be treated better and there would be fewer military actions if everyone was required to serve in the military. In a free society, every citizen has the duty to serve as in both in military and constabulary service. We just lost our way and excuse ourselves from our duty by saying we pay taxes and its not our job.

The real issue is a lack of emotional intelligence with a combination of the poorly dubbed psychological issue known as "toxic masculinity".

I've almost finished the eye-opening book "Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman. I highly recommend reading this book. The author breaks down exactly how the human brain functions on how that affects our thinking.

There has been a recorded steady decline of emotional intelligence in recent generations. Throw into this the change in traditional gender roles since the women's movement began about 50 years ago, and we are left with generations of men who are suffering mentally and emotionally. Men are no longer the sole provider/protector/progenitor as women realized they are not second class citizens. Many men still use the same 4 yardsticks to measure themselves - violence, aggression, social status, and sexual prowess.

So, yes, easy access to firearms will generate more mass murder. However, we also see in nations where private citizens are denied the universal right to defend themselves with arms teenage boys stabbing people to death with screwdrivers. Crime as a whole is decreasing, but violent crimes are increasing.

I can only speak for policing in the United States; most cops are good and decent people who do their job well. There are over 750,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. When you look at the number of "bad apples" in the barrel, you will see that it is a rather small number versus the whole.

The biggest issues we face in law enforcement in the United States is the decline applicants versus those leaving and a decline in funding for adequate training. Couple this with political pandering by law makers who keep passing legislation that figuratively handcuffs police from doing their jobs to appease a small number of loud mouths who demand reform, but offer no solutions, and we see a noble profession in decline.

Many of my co-workers are ready to quit and let the wolves have their run at the sheep farm.

I highly recommend asking your local agency to see if they have a ride-along program. Spend part of a shift with one of your local constabulary. See what it's like to to deal with drunks, spousal abusers, and general dyed in the wool criminals. Also, see how the average law abiding citizen is treated in a typical police encounter. It is an eye opening experience we all need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4y6hk41hFE

Sir Robert Peel is the father of modern policing or civilian policing. He gave the Nine Peelian Principles of Policing -

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

I have been in law enforcement for over 20 years with the last 11 as a police officer. What I am seeing is that human society has ignored the 7th Principle - the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Every member of a free society is responsible for policing. Most of society has excused itself from its duty by using the mentality "I pay taxes. It's not my job." However, society has also adopted a "Want my cake and eat it too" mentality, that is to say "It's not my job and I have no idea how to do the job, but I will determine how the job will be carried out."

No other profession in human society is Monday morning quarterbacked like law enforcement ("policing").

A little over 1,000 people are killed annually in the U.S. by law enforcement. Killed. Not Murdered. Justified homicide.

Conversely over 250,000 people are killed annually in the U.S. by medical malpractice. When was the last time the news media crucified doctors for this?

Is there a problem with police culture? Oh yes! Trust me. I about ruined myself over that non-sense.

I plan being an advocate of police reform. This includes educational programs for the general public and law makers on what really goes on in the streets as well as removing the toxic culture that has infiltrated policing.