The Citizen and Civic Responsibility
I personally believe that people of Ferguson Missouri need to stop yelling at their police department and have a heart to heart with themselves. Societies fall apart because members of that society give up on their society and turn their back on their society.
It is hard to deal with the tyranny of civic leaders who disregard the public will in order to serve their corporate masters. However, elected officials only do what we allow them to do while in office.
It is the responsibility of all of us to learn the issues, learn the candidates, choose good leaders, and mange elected leaders. The huge mess we are in today has taught us this lesson.
Problems, such as the abuse the police officers of the police department of Ferguson Missouri have perpetrated come from civic leaders allowing this abuse. I believe the people of Ferguson need to close their Police Department and vote out their municipal leaders with votes of no confidence. Then emergency elections need to be held where the people elect people who share their respect for human life values and who the people can trust to serve with honor and integrity.
The operational philosophy of the Ferguson Missouri police officers is so egregious that the police department has to be closed down. A new police department has to be quickly built where the new police officers are people who respect Human rights and Civil Rights. I can repeat the statements in this paragraph for police departments around the world.
It is sad that not much good happens in America because people are not united. It is time for us to be bothered and to build with goodness, decency, and wisdom.
We know there are serious problems. However, when we fail to act these problems get worse.
Police Human Reeducation
Behavior is clearly tied to personal philosophy. Troublesome police are fearful of the member of society they are confronting. This fear leads them to believe that this member of society may and will attack them. The more they interact with the suspicious member of society the more they talk themselves into fearing the member of society.
Eventually this fear results in the police office yelling orders and then putting handcuffs on the suspect. People who know their rights know that there is no reason for them to be handcuffed and attempt to defend their rights. This leads to aggressive behavior from police such as using pepper spray, use of tasers, striking the member of society with batons, and throwing people around.
Police believe that when they are interacting with a suspect that they have full authority to coerce and intimidate the suspect in to confessing. Police know that you are guilty and if they just verbally harass you long enough you will confess.
Yesterday, again I confronted one of El Paso, Texas, USA dumbest. I was trying to tell the officer that the person who I was struggling with had anger management problems. One of these police officers asks me if I am a doctor of psychology.
I asked him if he was a doctor of psychology. This police officer answered “no”.
Now, the customer I was having problems with was refusing to pay me for services I provided. I would not let him go until he paid. While I was trying to get this rude customer to pay I made a pretend 911 call on my cell phone.
This customer stated “good, we will see what the police will do to you when they get here”. I told him when they get here they are going to arrest you for not paying.
This person finally paid me. I let him go. He slammed the car door as he exited. He punched the passenger window as I was driving away.
When I turned around to drive back to the main road hat leads to where I wanted to go, this customer stood there taunting me. I considered him very dangerous. Therefore, I drove around two blocks away to get to the road I needed. When I got to the main road I needed, this violent customer was standing at the corner with a rock preparing to throw this rock at the car I was driving.
Now, I do not need to be a doctor in psychology to come to the conclusion that this person has anger management problems. However, police officer like to antagonize people by asking stupid questions such “are you a lawyer” or ‘are you a doctor of psychology”.
Now, when the police officers arrived one talked to me the other talked to the rude customer. I was going in circles, repeating the same thing trying to get this police officer to understand.
This police officer was under the impression I did not have the right to hold the customer until he paid. Attempting to leave a Taxi without paying is a crime. This crime is called “theft of services”. I know he did not want to pay because I asked him to pay before leaving and the customer responded “No, I am not going to pay you”.
In the state of Texas any person can hold a person he or she has seen commit a crime. I know I clearly saw the customer attempt to leave the Taxi I operate without paying. Therefore, I have every legal right to detain the suspect.
I once told a police officer of El Paso, Texas that as soon as I asked the person to leave the Taxi I was operating and that person refused the person was trespassing. Therefore, I had every right to use any and all force necessary to remove him from the Taxi. This police officer responded “No. You are wrong”.
This brings me to my next point. There is a serious petty childish immaturity that leads many police officers to squabble with members of society. Many police are so petty as to deliberately misrepresents the law as it is written.
The psychology of many police officers is seriously deficient. Police officers are quick to get angry and quick to start yelling and tossing people around. Police officers have anger management problems.
The two principle problems in discussing poor police behavior are Human Rights Violations and Civil Rights Violations.
Some Human Rights Violations are as follows:
1. Physically harming a person with pepper spray, user of Taser, use of baton, kicking, punching, and any other form of excessive force.
2. Killing a hand cuffed person. Killing a person running away and posing no threat to the officer.
3. Verbal harassment-yelling bad words at a person, yelling irrationally at a person.
4. Continuing to question a person for hours at the crime scene.
5. Threatening a person’s life and threatening a person’s freedom.
6. Rape
Some Civil Rights Violations are as follows:
1. Stopping and questioning a person they have not observe commit a crime or stopping and questioning a person police do not have crime report against.
2. Once haivng determined that the person did not commit a crime continuing to question the person and not letting the person leave.
3. Once having stopped a person, having determined the person has not committed a crime, but searching the person anyway.
4. Taking people’s property who have not committed a crime.
5. Telling suspects ‘shut up or I will arrest you for being homosexual” This actually happened in El Paso, Texas.
Part of a new city in Ferguson Missouri will have to include humanistic training for police officers. Some rapist participate in a program where they are in a room with rape victims telling their story. The goal of the program is to get rapist to see their victims as human beings in hopes that by begin sensitized to the human experience rapist will not rape anymore.
Future police applicants should include volunteerism experience with children and adults in need through out the community they plan to serve. This way there is a reasonable assurance that these applicants value life and will work at protecting all life.
In psychology, Cognitive Psychology deals with how a person thinks and how his or her thoughts contribute to their behavior. Police cadets need to be giving Cognitive Psychology training that reinforces the values needed for respect for life, respect for Human Rights, and respect for Civil rights.
Mental health evaluations should be done of police recruits. Anger problems need to be determined. Questionable personal philosophies need to be determined. Actual and diagnosable illness in the recruit need to be determined by qualified mental health professionals.
Again, troublesome police officers have emotional problems and have problem personal philosophies that lead these police officers to violated the Human Rights and Civil rights of members of society. We must continue forward. Therefore, we need productive strategies in order to meet the challenges of life while we are here on Earth.
Good Christians gathering in their place of worship and discussing constructive solutions are not people who gun down police officers in cold blood. Therefore, there should not be a failure in listening to their opinions.
I personally know that modern day troublesome police officers are unteachable. They are convinced that they are right and we are wrong.
The solution is in the hands of the people of Ferguson. They are the ones who know what community they want to live in today. Troublesome police and troublesome police departments are not good enough reason to give up and declare it is hopeless. When we can believe in the goodness and decency in our neighbor and the good and decency in us there is hope. Remember, hope builds.
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