"Bonnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly forwarded to LPNY_discuss a message including:
> From: norgesen > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:10 PM > An epidemic of violence is sweeping the country. Police are being trained that the general public are the enemy I'd be interested in evidence that that attitude -- which has been long associated with authoritarian cultures -- is being incuclated here now MORE THAN previously. That is, is it a trend, or is it just an unfortunate byproduct of policing? > and that they can engage in outright brutality without recourse. ...which would be a strange sentiment, considering that official recourse these days is more widely available than ever before. > Taser deaths are skyrocketing because the police have been ordered to use "pain compliance", otherwise known as torture, to subdue and oppress the citizenry. It is time for police to remember that their duty is to protect the general public from criminals and not act as enforcers for a tyrannical police state. "It is time for police to remember" won't cut it. If this is an institutional problem, an institutional remedy is needed, and if existing institutional remedies are failing, it's time to find out why. I've seen or heard, for instance, that television has been to blame for making dramatic police procedures seem routine, so that police then come to MAKE THEM routine. One possible remedy would be term limits. If over time (rather than being so trained at the beginning) police come to alienate themselves from the gen'l population, then it might help to limit that time. Of course limiting the duration of time one could be a policeman would carry such drawbacks as reducing their avg. experience, and make it more difficult to hire by excluding career seekers. It might help if we had a study correlating police misconduct with duration on the job. I sure wish we had John Perry to discuss this with. Seance, anyone? BTW, even if such techniques don't actually produce contact with the dead, it might be possible to generate insights thereby from the living. In Your Sly Tribe, Robert _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
