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2014-02-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Detroit's pro-gun Chief of Police speaks out, citizens fight back against crime.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-26 02:15|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The Ruger SR-762. It's time has come.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-26 08:47|| 2014-02-26 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 When power becomes an illusion and the realization that you can no longer claim the capacity to provide security (via a 'police force'), you face the reality that law and the government that it suppose to embody it, derives its legitimacy from the people. That power reverts back to the people when the 'law' and 'government' can no or will no longer provide security to one's person, one's family, or one's property. The institutions want power, but in such cases as now Detroit, the game is up. Even the facade of those institutions can no longer stand. Some people are grasping that reality.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-26 08:49|| 2014-02-26 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought it looked familiar.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-26 08:51|| 2014-02-26 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 But it's still ugly.

From an aesthetics perspective I prefer real wood and blued steel.....but then, I'm an old fart.

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-26 09:32|| 2014-02-26 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chief seems to get citizen Constitutional rights.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-02-26 09:49|| 2014-02-26 09:49|| Front Page Top

#6
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.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-26 12:09|| 2014-02-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Nice, BP; very comprehensive. Off the top of your head, was it? You seem to have given the matter some thought!

Posted by Bobby 2014-02-26 13:03|| 2014-02-26 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Those are the 9 principles of policing by the guy who started them.

Do we have a police or do we now have securitate instead?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-26 13:40|| 2014-02-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank you BP. Robert Peel had the right ideas on the relationship of gov't. to citizens. Unfortunately few do in this day and age.

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-26 14:05|| 2014-02-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

#10 That's about Bobbies, Bobby. :)

Posted by Shipman 2014-02-26 16:35|| 2014-02-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Bobby deriving from Robert.

Posted by phil_b 2014-02-26 23:25|| 2014-02-26 23:25|| Front Page Top

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