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Should a person who criticizes police be forced to attend the academy?
You find an awful lot of people who feel the need to criticize, critique, question, finger-point, name call, and more about police officers and their tactics. Yet few or even none of these people have a law enforcement background.
So do you think they should attend a police academy, and put in at least 6 months of riding a beat as an officer, before their comments? After all, if they do not know the way it is being taught then how can they question if the officer is handling the situation correctly? How about walking a mile in their shoes before forcing them to change to a different kind of shoe?
Lots of large cities are now putting civilian review boards into place. How can a civilian, without academy training, know when an officer acted inappropriately? Other than blatant violations, in which case you would not need a review board.
Serious answers only please, no comments about how you eat donuts so you know all about cops.
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- JaredLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yeah, I agree, I don't think it would change my mind though, I'd love to actually see what it is that a cop does other than incriminate the majority of the population (i.e. traffic tickets).
As for the review board, I think this is a deeper issue. The individual should have some responsibility, we shouldn't have mindless cops out there, this means that if they are given an order that they think is immoral or just plain wrong they should refuse to enforce it.
I think the citizens are the best judge of when the officer acted inappropriately, granted if it can be proven that the officer did exactly what the training said to do, then the citizen review board should have the power to modify the training/rules of engagement.
Here's an example:
A cop once told me that in the State of Texas, they have something where basically the cop is allowed to escalate "one up" (granted the meaning of this is vague). For instance, if you attack the office with hand-to-hand combat, then the officer is allowed to say beat you with his club. If you attack an officer with a knife, then the officer is allowed to fight back with their gun, etc.
So it's not hard to imagine that in some cases a cop might overeact, yet in some sense could have acted well within their orders.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Your all about Fascism, I'm sure that is considered lovely in some circles.
