No other profession excuses fatal mistakes like we cops do. Any criticism is an attack. We think policing is something we do TO a community & not FOR a community & certainly not WITH the community if that means actual input. We don’t get to tell them how we do our job; they do.
We have got to change what it means to be the police in America. We stress that cops are only human but then call our neighbors monsters. We excuse our own emotions and then demand our neighbors be robots of polite compliance. But its more than that.
There is real crime that police must address. Stuff hanging from a rear view mirror ain’t it. We need to stop treating regulation violations like violent crime. So we need to slow down, stop confusing compliance with success, and keep our guns in the holster. Start there.
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