 | User: Handle Member Since: 15-Dec-1998  Last On: 22-May-1999 Page Hits: 2 today (14 in the last 30 days) |
Recent Surveys:
1) Do you think the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia on purpose?
2) Would you allow yourself to benefit from crimes against humanity?
3) Which of the following are you most likely to be blackmailed for?
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Recent Comments:
| Jump to Survey | As I looked at the question again I realized that I neglected to reference the commentary on the question. It is actually a verbatim quote from the column "In The Loop" by Al Kamen from The Washington Post dated May, 17 1999. When I read the column it suggested the question to me, I thought it would be equally thought provoking if I were to include it with the question. I did not intend to steer responses with the quote, I merely thought that it would be impossible to give an informed answer to the question if that particular nugget of information was unknown to the survey answerer. Mea culpa. |
| Jump to Survey | I forgot nothing. I also meant to include actions performed during time of war. |
| Jump to Survey | EB--- I don't know where you work or what you do so I won't attempt to compare the relative hazards of your job with the hazards of a police officers job. I would hope, however, that if your job is as hazardous as a police officers' that your compensation would reflect that level of risk. I think it is unlikely, however, that your job requires you to confront, arrest or apprehend armed criminals.
You are entitled to your opinion of police officers. That they are dull conventional people whom you neither like nor trust. You are also entitled to say that they are not decent people, they lack a respect for the law and to say that they are self-important and abuse their power. I would not dream of curtailing your right of free-expression and I am glad we live in a society where you can say such things and not fear for your freedom, safety or life. I wonder, however, whether this opinion is based on fact or is merely the result of your own prejudices. Considering your antipathy for the police I wonder, also, if you could suggest some alternatives. Would the police, for example, do a better job if we were to replace all of the current officers with different people? Presumably you think that there is some pool of people who are not dull and conventional. Some pool of people who you like and trust and who are decent and respect the law. Presumably these people could serve as law officers. What, then, is preventing these people from doing this important job? Presumably, also, you would include yourself in this pool of qualified people. What prevents you from doing the job and thus making a change in what you consider to be a deplorable system? Could it be that law-enforcement is, in fact a hard, crappy job that most people don't want to do? Your hostility towards constructive means of participating in community policing such as ride-alongs, and presumably also community advisory panels and citizen review boards, causes me to wonder how deeply you disapprove of the current system if you are unwilling to act to change it. Admittedly I am presuming a lot over what may be simple hostility directed towards me, but what I have written is at least plausible based on the virulence of your post. |
