The Nine Principles of Policing
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1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by
military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognize always that the power of the police to fulfill 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 recognize 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 recognize 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 recognize 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 recognize 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 believe the looters and such should be stepped on, quickly
and throughly, but legally, using the justice system and
the courts.
I also believe the police in Ferguson need a house cleaning,
staring at the top with whomever authorized the abuse of the
press, the snipers scoping the public, the teargassing of the
original peaceful protest before the retards and looters took
over, etc....
Personally, I believe that when the Police dressed like Police
Officers, they generally behaved like Police Officers. The switch
from blue uniforms to dressing like paramilitary ninjas in black
seems to have gone hand in hand with a change in mentality to
an "
Us vs Them" from being deputized members of the public.
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