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Moral police?
WINNING WAY BY DATIN T.D. AMPIKAIPAKAN
HAS OUR society become so morally bankrupt that we need to be policed in everything that we do? If so, who do we appoint to police us? Are they fit to do so? Who, in turn, will police the police?
I checked some etiquette books to see what were the “accepted practices” that would work in a “growing but finding your way” multi-racial society. This is what I found:
Manners, morals and ethics are closely interrelated;
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
29 November 2007
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New chief speaks on values as
As three former Milwaukee police officers were being sentenced Thursday for beating Frank Jude Jr., newly selected Police Chief Edward Flynn was at a podium a few blocks down Wisconsin Ave. speaking about honor behind the badge.
At his first formal public appearance as chief-to-be, Flynn told the Milwaukee Press Club and others at the Midwest Airlines Center about curing poor public perception of police, bridging the gaps in community relations, and fixing a culture among officers that pressures them not to report misconduct among the ranks.
"I think the Frank Jude case clearly was a citywide trauma. It was a trauma for the Police Department as well. Fortunately, even in traumatic events something good can occur," said Flynn, currently the police commissioner in Springfield, Mass.
Flynn, 59, cited changes in the hiring process here, and said the best early warning system for potential police misconduct is an applicant's background investigation.
"The first critical point is in the hiring process. I would rather do with less than have the wrong people in the organization," he said.
He said the challenge as a police institution is to keep an eye out for patterns of behavior. Flynn said it's the nature of citizen police complaints that many of them are resolved as unsubstantiated. Yet, over time, "when we find certain individuals accumulate the same sort of complaints, even though they may be unsustained, clearly something's going on here."
Flynn said although departments are more selective, more diverse and better trained than ever, there are still strong cultural pressures to not step forward and report misconduct.
"That's something I think we can fix," he said. "It's a profession that is fundamentally about honor. It's about values."
He said he came to the profession with a noble purpose during the turbulent times of the late 1960s and '70s.
"We all have an obligation to see what we can do to improve the relations between the police and the community," he said. "I'm convinced that it can be done."
He called it a great American tragedy that in neighborhoods where policing is needed most, where people are most physically at risk, stress and tension between the community and police are the highest.
"Where the rubber hits the road, where the police officer and the community are in contact in situations under stress, there exactly is where the potential is for positive change," he said.
Flynn met earlier Thursday with Mayor Tom Barrett and planned meetings today with department commanders and aldermen.
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