MM> No confusion at all here, thanks.
Your previous message indicated that police routinely make arrests without
merit. I read your message again to see if I misunderstood what you said, but
this is what you said in the message. There is certainly no shortage of
violations, so why would any police officer make an arrest without merit?
Your statement was not specific, so I assume that you are talking about the
entire profession, all police officers. I do not agree with your accusation,
and I doubt that many others do either.
 MM>                                        Well into basic in 1978 while
 MM> studying police authority and laws, it was ppointed out by our police
 MM> lawyer that police authority was on a continum, always swing either
 MM> more pro police or the other way. This movement is effected by any
 MM> number of circumstances.
I've heard of this analogy before, regarding the pendulum, but it was stated
in a more generic manner. The swing is from liberal to conservative or vice
versa, and this change involves the entire society, not just thoughts about
the police. The change eventually involves the entire criminal justice
system. It is my opinion that popularity of the police is decided at the
community level, not at a state or national level. The same would be true
regarding the popularity of Police Chiefs. This is decided at the community
level. This popularity factor is usually influenced greatly by the police
department responding to the needs and desires of the people they serve. As a
result, the people in one community might love their police department, and a
community 50 miles away might hate their police department. It is my opinion
that police popularity is either won or lost one contact at a time with the
public.
 MM>                       The pendulum swings both ways and a look
 MM> at the albright college debate debacle indicates achange in
 MM> society.EVERYTHING comes back and there is no original idea. mike
I don't think that 10 or 12 people disrupting a meeting indicates a shift of
society. Maybe others may place a higher emphasis on this disruption than I
do. Regarding the "no original ideas", I would say there would be at least
one original idea by the second, somewhere around the world. These original
ideas usually lead to progress, innovation, higher technology, and invention.
The average person does things today that weren't dreamed of 30 years ago.
Tom Rightmer - A Victims' Rights Advocate
... Why did CNN cancel that cool "Desert Storm" show?
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