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Do our policemen need mental examination?

Do they need mental examination?

  • Do it!

    Votes: 22 95.7%
  • Nope, they do their job perfectly.

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Total voters
    23
there is more to it than just the mental issue...I think its the training problem...I really believe that when a police is on the job we are suppose to be treated like cattle..to be controlled ..without any respect as a us citizen or for that matter... human...only police with built in compassion will treat people with respect...if a u.s. citizen makes a mistake we will pay and or go to jail...if police makes a mistake they seem to be protected by the union and the city...
 
police are human ..everyone does not play with a full deck.....some people are prejudice and ignorant...very dangerous when that person has a gun on their waist...but most cops are good..just like most people are good..but we don't carry guns...my son is in the Sherriff academy as we speak
 
McDonald's has higher quality control than most police departments.
 
That's the way you scored 33000 posts, well done!
I started this thread. Do you have an argument?

I ask you if you have an argument... you say it is your thread and do not present an argument... and then you ask me if I have an argument? Did that just happen?
 
What happens to cops? It's not a suspicion, it's obvious that they are as violent as vultures. Does their jobs drive them so violent? Or maybe those cops who commit crimes were mentally ill before they applied for their jobs? I have no doubt that someone would name some other reasons of cops violence. I think it would be useful to examinate all the cops that are in charge now to cleanse our police in the name of our security. Do you agree?

I think mental and personality exams can be fudged if some one or some group wanted to make an effort to instruct how to answer acceptably. That said, sure most should have a mental health assessment.

More importantly, the job is stressful and important enough that I think that there should be on staff psyche doctors and all non-administrative police should be required and included in part of their workhours, regular trips to said doctor, not for assessment but instead for support and direction that may keep officers from becoming tainted. I have no doubt that many tainted officers didn't start that way. I feel pretty certain it grows on a person in that line of work.
 
What happens to cops? It's not a suspicion, it's obvious that they are as violent as vultures. Does their jobs drive them so violent? Or maybe those cops who commit crimes were mentally ill before they applied for their jobs? I have no doubt that someone would name some other reasons of cops violence. I think it would be useful to examinate all the cops that are in charge now to cleanse our police in the name of our security. Do you agree?

I would say that at the very least 90% of cops in this country don't even come close to fitting your description. Most cops don't even shoot their gun even once through out their entire careers. The ONLY reason that it seems like there are so many police shootings is due to media frenzy. In a country of 300+ million people and of those 1.7-8 million cops its not that hard to find when bad things happen. And its even easier to spin things into something that its not. Ex: Ferguson.
 
What good will it do?

It's not like someone could simply lie, right? Not to mention that unless you go with fully qualified/trained psychiatrist using imaging and blood tests for psychoactive/brain chemicals, your dealing with part of the medical system that is no more advanced or based in science than shamanism or witchdoctors.

Are you equating therapists and psychologists with shamanism and witchcraft? Am I reading that correctly?
 
What happens to cops? It's not a suspicion, it's obvious that they are as violent as vultures. Does their jobs drive them so violent? Or maybe those cops who commit crimes were mentally ill before they applied for their jobs? I have no doubt that someone would name some other reasons of cops violence. I think it would be useful to examinate all the cops that are in charge now to cleanse our police in the name of our security. Do you agree?

Examine? Really!?

And what criteria, pray tell, will you use to expose those deeply hidden secrets and save the world from the tentative future possibility that a cop just might be a problem?

Word association, ink splotches, or water-boarding?

How will you get around the privacy of HIPAA laws?
 
I would say that at the very least 90% of cops in this country don't even come close to fitting your description. Most cops don't even shoot their gun even once through out their entire careers. The ONLY reason that it seems like there are so many police shootings is due to media frenzy. In a country of 300+ million people and of those 1.7-8 million cops its not that hard to find when bad things happen. And its even easier to spin things into something that its not. Ex: Ferguson.

Fair enough. Though there can be no harm done having people evaluated mentally before handing them a badge, a gun and such authority. What harm comes from that?
 
Are you equating therapists and psychologists with shamanism and witchcraft? Am I reading that correctly?

Oh yea you are.
 
Examine? Really!?

And what criteria, pray tell, will you use to expose those deeply hidden secrets and save the world from the tentative future possibility that a cop just might be a problem?

Word association, ink splotches, or water-boarding?

How will you get around the privacy of HIPAA laws?

I think the idea is just try to prevent this:

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A former Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was fired for excessive force is now working elsewhere as a police officer, WFTV has learned.

Jeff Iannuzzi was fired from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in 2010, but was later hired at the Ocoee Police Department.

From happening!!!


Read more at Dept Hires Cop Who Was Fired For Lying And Excessive Force, Say He’s A ‘Nice Guy’ | The Free Thought Project
 
Fair enough. Though there can be no harm done having people evaluated mentally before handing them a badge, a gun and such authority. What harm comes from that?

90%, at least, of police departments in the US include mental exams as a prequalifier to getting a job. That has been increasing, not decreasing. I think it should be 100%, but it should also be reasonable. A person should be evaluated for who they are, not any biases against a category of people the person can fall into.
 
I would say that at the very least 90% of cops in this country don't even come close to fitting your description. Most cops don't even shoot their gun even once through out their entire careers. The ONLY reason that it seems like there are so many police shootings is due to media frenzy. In a country of 300+ million people and of those 1.7-8 million cops its not that hard to find when bad things happen. And its even easier to spin things into something that its not. Ex: Ferguson.
I agree there's a lot of truth to that. It *seems* more because we live in an age of instantaneous information. But this begs a couple points...

1) It stands to reason that abuses have always been happening, we just couldn't prove it, and the 'thin blue line' was effective.

2) Because we are now finding out about those abuses that do happen, it is even more incumbent upon us to prosecute said abuses.
 
What happens to cops? It's not a suspicion, it's obvious that they are as violent as vultures. Does their jobs drive them so violent? Or maybe those cops who commit crimes were mentally ill before they applied for their jobs? I have no doubt that someone would name some other reasons of cops violence. I think it would be useful to examinate all the cops that are in charge now to cleanse our police in the name of our security. Do you agree?

Vultures hang around and wait for something to die on its own.
 
What happens to cops? It's not a suspicion, it's obvious that they are as violent as vultures. Does their jobs drive them so violent? Or maybe those cops who commit crimes were mentally ill before they applied for their jobs? I have no doubt that someone would name some other reasons of cops violence. I think it would be useful to examinate all the cops that are in charge now to cleanse our police in the name of our security. Do you agree?

There is no such psychological trait as 'violence', though some pseudoscientists may say otherwise. So-called 'violence' consists of the physical side-effects of a variety of practical actions and behaviors. Oftentimes deceptive sociopaths propagate the terms 'violent' / 'violence', 'violent criminals', and 'non-violent' / 'non-violence', because they seek to falsely attribute any and all direct and effective opposition to tyrannical aggression to a psychological desire for 'violence', thus discreditting such opposition.

The real problem with police is that a large portion of them have an innate pathological mindset of dominance. That mindset causes delusions, aggressive behavior, and political actions to facilitate their delusions and aggression. 'Violence' is sometimes a side-effect of dominance-asserting aggression, and other times it is not, because there are a variety of dominance-assertion behaviors, but all of them are unjust and disruptive to society.

Therefore, police should be subjected to genetic testing, neurochemical testing, tone of voice analysis, and other psychological analysis, to determine if they have dominance-asserting temperament. The particular cops and prospective cops who do have that temperament must be summarily fired, blacklisted, and sterilized, and those who have perpetrated dominance-asserting aggression must be executed.
 
I would think this is already a thing. Other professions have psych evals all the time, I would have to think that police are amongst those professions.
They have guns and batons and bad reputation, so their mental health definitely needs to be monitored.
 
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