Current Affairs: Police Change

Current Affairs: Police Change

Yes, there is a great need to make changes and improvements in regard to how police do their jobs. What occurred to me this morning, listening to all the news media outlets who were providing their perspective on those changes, I thought to myself, "first, what qualifies them to make those decisions, recommendations and advisories? Second, what about us, the people, the masses who may one day face an officer out there... on the streets, what is OUR RESPONSIBILITY in all of this?" Huh, what's that you say? Well, it does, pardon me for saying, it does take "two to tango!"

As a professional who has studied both sides of that coin in regard to teaching, preaching and practicing self-defense, I can tell you that although most perceive the problem being with the officers, the police, they fail, through a human bias, to have the ability to see that we, the people, have a certain social and legal responsibility to change the way we do things in social environments, as well as private. On our side of the coin, when conflict/violence are either in the mix or a possibility, we too have a responsibility.  

While we are out hell bent on making what we perceive, think but mostly FEEL, are changes to the police and their processes, in doing their jobs, we should be spending the same effort, time and money, coming up with changes in how we, the people/society, act and talk out there in the wild wild west of modern society. 

Most of our efforts in this change process is ignorance! We the people have NO CLUE as to how the police go about doing there jobs (we make a huge assumption in the regard mostly from our experience with entertainment, not reality). What if, say for instance, we had classes in the lower educational grade system on police and police processes (Police ROTC) and police standards and practices, etc., to educate folks on how the job is done. Not just the one career day speeches but a full on four semester program for ALL!

Another idea, we have military imbedded in our educational system where those interested are able to participate in a military-oriented program (ROTC) to learn and understand how the military work in preparation for when those who participate may prep for joining after the education process ends. Those who don't join at least have a modicum of education, understanding and experience with the military; that goes a long way to understand what they see and hear through news and entertainment media so they have a better perspective ...

Why not have the same type of program for police in the educational system. Why not have a program on self-defense, the legal version not the one taught in the local gym, so one gets a fuller understanding of those necessary requirements we all will need one day out there, in the wild wild west of modern society? 

There are lots of professionals out there that can lead the way to develop and implement programs that would go a long way to "EDUCATE toward UNDERSTANDING" the trials and tribulations of how and why the police do what they do. It's a yin/yang thing, to balance it all out you need to deal with both the YIN, our social and legal responsibilities and understanding, and the YANG, the legal responsibilities, standards and practiced toward understanding. 

If we continue, this emotionally charged knee-jerk reaction, the direction we are following now; to hobble in lieu of promoting positive changes; in and within the police communities we are DOOMED to failure... much like the continuing failure in our efforts to control firearms, guns and weapons (oh my?), used in criminal endeavors. 

IT'S ABOUT BALANCE guys and gals, ops I mean folks, and only with a BALANCE on both sides of that coin of both police and arms control within our society, we will doom ourselves to wasteful spending while spinning our wheels in the mud and mire of conflict and violence. 

Let us find BALANCE! Let us make changes in both the police and human communities so we can "all get along" better without resorting to conflict and violence. 

Let us find BALANCE! Let us make changes in both the police and human communities so we can "all get along" better without resorting to conflict and violence.