On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 2:39:31 PM UTC+8, David P. wrote:
Can We Keep the Bad Apples Out of the Police?
Letters, Feb. 1, 2023, WSJ
Regarding Gerard Baker’s column “Tyre Nichols’s Death Raises Hard Questions About Race and Policing” (Free Expression, Jan. 31): People generally become police officers for one of three reasons. First, some want a well-paying job with good
benefits and job security. Second, some want to serve their community. Third, and I believe this is the minority, some like and want the power associated with the job.
This power is sometimes manifest in violence. Sometimes it is race-related, but sometimes not. If this is combined with poor hiring, poor management of staff and the wrong tone from the top, this kind of thing happens. It’s a leadership issue.
---Ed Parry, Milford, Mass.
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The suggestion in your editorial “The Death of Tyre Nichols” (Jan. 30) that there is “inadequate training” doesn’t wash. Do police officers need to be told not to punch a man they’re arresting in the face? Not to kick the man and hit him
with a club while he is being restrained and not offering resistance? How many times?
---David Spaulding, Naples, Fla.
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Mr. Baker is correct that quality of policing needs to be part of the discussion. Sadly, the left’s assault on the profession has driven away the types of officers so desperately needed: thoughtful, measured men and women who can control their
emotions and de-escalate volatile situations.
From the defund movement to bail reform to no-pursuit laws, trendy, progressive ideas have made urban policing an undesirable job. Facing critical staffing shortages, many cities are finding that five-figure signing bonuses can’t compensate for the
loss of respect and support; any smart, eager recruits must survey their career prospects and think, “no thanks.” This will force departments to scrape the barrel for the types of candidates we don’t need: the hotheads who view physical
confrontation as a job perk.
---Matthew Bastian, Seattle
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-killing-training-recruitment-bad-apples-11675200351
At the end of the day, bad apple is about authoritative police power of carrying a gun to demand, violate, search, abuse, and even recklessly shoot to kill, and worse without responsibility and accountability, or even without prosecution by warped court,
and no compensation, too.
If gun-obsessed police power is removed from carrying gun, they will timid down immediately. They will walk to you in a non-violent approach; used very sincere words, and even retreat nicely from you, too.
After they leave you, a independent survey organization will send you a SMS to you to anonymously rate their service and to recommend improvement or terminate action on them.
Without leaving your number on it, the SMS can give you a pre-scribed action choices to choose either keep them, or keep them with re-grading tests,, or to sack them, or even after sack, to ban them from further carrying or keeping of gun even as private
citizen, and or also not allow him to work in any gun-carrying job at all.
By all these impositions, the police will reform immediately on its own and by itself will remove bad apples from their force by civilian people who decided their job and employment. They will in turn be very happy to see people as human beings and not
criminals. The people will be more welcoming to see policemen as partners to them, and not enemies to them.
With all these simple rules in place, the policemen will change their hatred behavior on treating people.
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