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Loading Glossary… Alan Kirkland Sep 8 2025 at 12:07AM on page 5
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While some of the points in this document are generally common sense, ie, police should strive to use the least amount of force necessary to control a suspect, this document on the whole is absurd. No cop is going to remember 28 pages of use-of-force policy in the milliseconds when he has to make a life or death decision. What is most detrimental about the vague language in policies such as this one is that it can (and will) create an atmosphere of reluctance on the part of police to pursue and arrest many types of suspects. Drug addicts that commit "petty" crimes such as theft, vandalism, harassment, assault, or act lewd and threatening, cause so much destruction to communities. They make entire areas feel unsafe, and then the community rots.
Policies such as this one cause the police to take a hands-off approach to these sorts of criminal behaviors in order to avoid confrontations that will typically devolve into violent arrests, and that then leads to those drug addicted criminals being left on the streets until the day they escalate their behavior to an extreme crime such as felony robbery, burglary, battery, rape, and murder – and in fact, that is what is happening, all over our nation. The policy have been relegated to "clean up crew".
Our entire justice system seems to be aligned towards tolerance for a small percentage of the population that wreaks havoc on the whole of society, with the excuse always being that we must pity them because of their drug addictions.
I think, rather than forcing the police to produce and adhere to long and vague "use of force" doctrines, the police should be given simple and broad policy objectives:
1) Aggressively arrest all known drug addicts, drug dealers, illegal aliens, and violent offenders.
2) Use the amount of force that is necessary in your best judgement to deal with all suspects who are unlawfully non-compliant, always keeping in mind the safety of the innocents nearby.
3) Be professional and courteous at all times.
And I could boil that policy down even further: Clean up the streets. Do it aggressively. Try to keep a smile on your face as you do it.
One other thing: to the extent that prosecutors and judges directly undermine the efforts of the police to reduce crime and protect the innocent by releasing criminals back on to the streets where they inevitably commit more heinous crimes, the police should document the actions of those prosecutors and judges, and then regularly release all of that information to the public. The silent majority might wake up one day, but only if they are acutely aware of the carnage and can associate it with the names of specific corrupt individuals in our justice system who are hell bent on destroying our society.
All felony offenders should be forced to do hard labor for their sentences. It will help them evolve, and it will help society cover the costs of their poor decisions.
Policies such as this one cause the police to take a hands-off approach to these sorts of criminal behaviors in order to avoid confrontations that will typically devolve into violent arrests, and that then leads to those drug addicted criminals being left on the streets until the day they escalate their behavior to an extreme crime such as felony robbery, burglary, battery, rape, and murder – and in fact, that is what is happening, all over our nation. The policy have been relegated to "clean up crew".
Our entire justice system seems to be aligned towards tolerance for a small percentage of the population that wreaks havoc on the whole of society, with the excuse always being that we must pity them because of their drug addictions.
I think, rather than forcing the police to produce and adhere to long and vague "use of force" doctrines, the police should be given simple and broad policy objectives:
1) Aggressively arrest all known drug addicts, drug dealers, illegal aliens, and violent offenders.
2) Use the amount of force that is necessary in your best judgement to deal with all suspects who are unlawfully non-compliant, always keeping in mind the safety of the innocents nearby.
3) Be professional and courteous at all times.
And I could boil that policy down even further: Clean up the streets. Do it aggressively. Try to keep a smile on your face as you do it.
One other thing: to the extent that prosecutors and judges directly undermine the efforts of the police to reduce crime and protect the innocent by releasing criminals back on to the streets where they inevitably commit more heinous crimes, the police should document the actions of those prosecutors and judges, and then regularly release all of that information to the public. The silent majority might wake up one day, but only if they are acutely aware of the carnage and can associate it with the names of specific corrupt individuals in our justice system who are hell bent on destroying our society.
All felony offenders should be forced to do hard labor for their sentences. It will help them evolve, and it will help society cover the costs of their poor decisions.
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