From our beloved Journal this morning, link.
Chief Administrative Officer Robert Perry has fired off a letter to the Department of Justice. He informed them of our intention to cooperate with their investigation into police shootings.
It calls up a picture of a little kid on a playground "offering to cooperate" with the schoolyard bully, rather than get the crap pounded out of him. What other choice does he have?
The alternative (other than not sending any letter at all) would have been to tell the truth; we intend to manipulate the direction and depth of your investigation at every opportunity in order to cover the asses of good ol' boys in city politics and public service.
A quick example in support of that conjecture; when was the last time the morale of the rank and file in the Police Dept was qualified or quantified? Never.
I would argue that there is undoubtedly a correlation between officer morale and police shootings. I can't sight a study to support that hypothesis, because there aren't any. ( a google search produced paltry results).
Why? Why won't departmental morale be investigated as a contributing factor in police shootings?
The answer to that question is found in another question;
who is responsible for the morale of in police department?
The leadership of an organization owns morale. Morale is in
fact, a good indicator of the quality of the leadership; measure
morale and you have measured leadership.
Bad leaders obstruct qualification and quantification of poor morale in order to obstruct the investigation and measurement of their poor leadership. It is as true in the leadership of the APD as in the APS; teachers' morale and its effect on the success or failure of public education has never been investigated there either.
Every effort will be made to limit the scope of the investigation surreptitiously. There will be no investigation of the low morale, the underlying causes, or their effect on the number of police shootings.
Just watch.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Perry to cooperate with DOJ probe
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I am a lifelong humanitarian, but what I see about cops being sued for shooting suspects bothers me.
In APD (and other cities), a cop is often forced to hesitate and think twice about pulling a gun, or shooting a scumbag.
Here is where I quit being a "liberal". IF a crime-committing jerk is possibly putting police officers lives on the line, then he gets shot, on purpose, or by accident.
I wouldn't shed a tear for the asshole, but his asshole family shows up in force to defend the perp who got shot.
It's not like APD officers are stopping speeders, then shooting them in the face by accident when they reach for their wallet. And if that were to happen? Then an investigation should take place.
Citizens need to stand with APD and say to their government that asshole criminals have too much protection, too muany "rights".
Dumbasses: If you do the crime... then take the consequences that came with your "career" selection!
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