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"THE VERDICT IS IN, NOW WHAT?"

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Anonymous Matt said...

Kevin, your blog seems to convey the "stop snitching" mind set as a lack of trust in police officers. The "stop snitching" philosophy comes from the street mentality of "we will take care of our own." To talk to a cop gets you beat or killed. Often victims of shootings refuse to talk because they plan to handle the retaliation and don't want police involvement.

I too will probably take a lot of flak for these comments but I'm going to forgo political correctness.

Police officers are aggressive by nature. Think about it, who would want to do a job for 20+ years where your primary responsibility is dealing with crime? Just like nurturing people are attracted to fields like nursing or therapy work, "aggressive" people are attracted to police work. I'm not saying all cops are aggressive but a certain mentality needs to be present for a person to be willing to deal with violent people daily. This is why you have such a low proportion of female officers and sometimes those officers look like males.

Criminals don't operate like mainstream society. They often have a complete disregard for laws, property and sometimes life. They don't care how politically correct the world is getting or how strict the laws are. Even prison time gives them "street cred".

Society hires and expects its cops to police it's criminal element. If you think about it, cops are the buffer keeping the have-nots away from the haves. The question is what kind of cops do the haves want? Aggressive cops who get in trouble sometimes as a result of their aggressive nature, yet can handle criminals? Or does society want tree hugging cops who are hospitalized and killed every week as criminals run wild?

Society seems to think cops should be able to handle violence yet not be violent. It doesn't work that way. As a group becomes more violent so does it's cops. This is why you see more police officers getting into more legal trouble in areas that have more crime. Take a look at The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in 1971 to see how this dynamic starts.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

Maybe the courts are aware of this and prefer the more aggressive cop.

December 9, 2009 at 12:55 AM

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