This Cop's Doing it Right

[Clod Stomper]

I didn't see this elsewhere yet.

 

Cop stops to play ball with a boy who is playing by himself.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCB8E2dJcU

 

 

[buck1032]

I saw that yesterday and thought that it was cool that the media picked up on it. I do know for a fact that I have seen other officers do/perform similar acts without any recognition.

Edited January 21, 2014 by buck1032

[Guest Gustafa]

Yes. This builds goodwill and trust in the community as well. When they need help in that area, they will get it.

[tnguy]

Cops should be regular citizens who just happen to have been given extra authority to enforce the law. If they are part of the community, they are much more effective.

 

It would be nice to move toward the Peelian principles. I don't know how much they ever applied in the US.

 

 

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion; but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Edited January 21, 2014 by tnguy

[JayC]

A great news story, far too few of them.

[bersaguy]

A great public relations video and a great LEO for taking time out to pitch the ball around with young boy. That boy will remember that for years to come and probably have much more respect for the police in his future..........jmho