[Valpal1]

To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[CharlesOConnell]

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Lt. Col. Dave Grossman studied the act of killing in war, comparable to formerly taboo sexological studies. Results: In wars prior to Viet Nam, in all recorded history, only 15% of front line soldiers used lethal force, 85% shot over the enemy's head, just postured and blustered to scare the enemy into retreating. Between Korea and Viet Nam, soldiers were deliberately desensitized away from the deep taboo against killing, resulting in 95% lethal force rates in that war. Returning soliders were reviled rather than brought back into their communities in traditional purification rituals—medals awards ceremonies. Finally, our urban young people have been desensitized away from the taboo against killing by Grand Theft Auto—induced sociopathy.

A survey of African-American young men shows that only 22% regard racism as a significant limitation on their life's success prospects.

(Don't believe it? How many African-Americans are present in mainstream commercial advertising? Is racism hurting the bottom line?)

But LBJ's Great Society robbed their people of their initiative and tore their fathers, teachers of manhood, away from their families.

 

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Between Rodney King's Can't We All Just Get Along? and Nicole Brown Simpson's The Bitch Got Hers, the worst injury possible against a people has been perpetrated—its leadership have convinced them to give up their fundamental sense of right and wrong.

[RightOnTheBorder]

The Peelers couldn’t stand up to a riotous mob and would be forced to retreat. If the Peelers are forced to retreat the State can no longer maintain the illusion that they are capable of or intend to protect the public. If the public realized the scam they will start to defend themselves (see Detroit) and then two things will happen that the State cannot permit. One, crime will go down and two, people will start to question what right the state has to ruin someone’s life with the legal system when he is forced to defend himself. The state will not give up it’s protection racket or its legal scam so you will continue to see the jack boots.

[familyop]

There’s been so much talk about the “War on Terror” and hypothetical police responses that has led to the wearing of dramatic equipment for emulating soldiers. But onsider what would happen, if guerrillas like those of ISIS attacked a suburb like Ferguson. The realistic police response would be to run and hide. National Guard infantry would take care of the problem.

[Falcon4.0]

If Police insist on keeping this type of power, they should be required to wear Google type recording type glasses.
The recording situation should be defined into 3 classes of threat.
"Defcon-3" Normal Patrol. Data stored for 72 hours.
"Defcon-2" Investigation, (i.e.) normal traffic stop . Data stored for 30 days or until Court resolution of case.
'Defcon-1" Officer draws a weapon. Data to be stored indefinately.

[GladesGuru]

Sir Robert Peel dealt with Englishmen. Unarmed Bobby’s could work there because England was a culturally monolithic society.

America now has to deal with black and Latrino underclasses whose overt racial hatred of whites is made clear and unambiguous every day, all across America.

Whenever America decides to stop supporting the Black and Latrino Urban Ferals, they will become either productive or dead. Americans have retrieved their Second Amendment rights and the armed American citizen can deal with violent criminals better, faster, and at vastly less expense than can the police, be they armed police, militarized police, whatever.

Using the case of the Missouri riots, had the shop keepers been armed with pistols and shotguns or rifles behind the counter, rioter would find something else to do.

Were the Bounty to be reinstated, the riotous could become a resource to be harvested. Yes - rioters can be transformed into a resource to the community. A violent criminal, once killed for being a clear and present danger to life and property, becomes a resource to the citizen whom the criminal forced into killing him.

Along with protecting life, liberty, and property, the bounty rewards the law abiding citizen for removing a dangerous social predator. The Bounty rewards the armed citizen and for solving the risk created by the criminal at a greatly lower cost than trials, incarceration, parole, ad nauseam.

Bounties worked before, and will again work if America tires of the dangers posed by criminals and the costs and growing dangers of a police state sized police force.

America need to reinstate the Bounty.

[Sequoyah101]

Wasn’t in in Philly where they burned a whole block after dropping ‘bombs” from a helicopter?

[bamahead]

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[Kenny Bunk]

I worked happily in Philly when Frank Rizzo was the CoP.

They loved that guy in the 'hood because he kept order and good African-Americans citizens could get on with their lives largely free of the deleterious effects of "ghetto culture."

Black Mayor? Black Police Chief? Black School Superintendent? = Black Bullshiite. Kiss any town where that happens good-bye.

The record says you'll have inept and corrupt government, high crime, and failing schools. Look it up.

[sarasmom]

Meanwhile...the world burns because useless idiots think lofty policy goals trump brutal human reality.

[Cubs Fan]

Wow I never thought I’d see so many freepers supporting the cause of rioters.

To those dummies who do.

This is NOT the Bundy stand off with an unaccountable government agency forcing people to abide by horribly unfair tyrannical laws that make no sense.

Ferguson is the police enforcing legitimate laws against looting, arson, vandalism, theft, shooting people. etc.

Don’t be stupid tools for the ugly racial politics of the left. If you are on the same side of this as Jesse Jackson and Al sharpton then you’ve f-ed up somewhere, big time. Rethink it!

[Carry_Okie]

Interesting set of comments on the original article.

[Lurker]

Sadly those days are gone I’m afraid.