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Police officers should be required to be nice

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Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

Far too general, vague or broad to be enforced as law. What level of niceness is required to stop an alleged perp from continuing to commit a crime in progress?

Excuse me sir, but it would be nice if you refrained from beating and stabbing the young woman like that... Oh sorry, my bad, I did not realize that you were in a hurry to eliminate a witness to a prior crime - carry on and we will arrest you shortly after you finish her off.
 
Can they give out candy too? That would be really cool. It could be an excellent way to deescalate a situation as well in the "change your state" model of conflict resolution. Some angry person might be all irate over receiving a parking ticket, but then the officer hands out a chocolate bar and suddenly the person's mental state changes. Candy not guns!

:2razz:
 
Can they give out candy too? That would be really cool. It could be an excellent way to deescalate a situation as well in the "change your state" model of conflict resolution. Some angry person might be all irate over receiving a parking ticket, but then the officer hands out a chocolate bar and suddenly the person's mental state changes. Candy not guns!

:2razz:

No **** That,,,,,they should travel with ice creams packed in dry ice....the good ones....there better not be any artificially flavored Popsicle's to be found in the mix!
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.
Why not require everyone to be nice to people? Clearly a police officer has certain unique aspects but whatever your underlying principle, couldn't it potentially be relevant to any of us?
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

Maybe we should first focus on not abusing their power and not being so afraid all the time that they regularly kill unarmed civilians in "self defense" before we work on making them be "nice".
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

Wouldn't it be great if the criminals were nice too?
Hi,I'm Leroy,I'm gonna be your rapist this evening,if there is anything I can do to make this more enjoyable please let me know.
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

Sure.

And the citizens that police officers come into contact with should also be required to be nice and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

Act nice to the cops and you will find them to be pretty accommodating and helpful.

Act like a tool to the cops and you will find them about as accommodating as a warm prison shower.

Too many people push them right up to the limit and wonder why they get their asses handed to them.

If you run into a bad cop, shut your freaking mouth and report him afterwards.
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

How about they should just be professional and courteous?

And not act like the 7th grade hall monitor?
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

How do you define "nice"? Please sir, kindly stop shooting at me and my fellow officers or I'll have to kindly put rounds in you, sir.
 
Maybe we should first focus on not abusing their power and not being so afraid all the time that they regularly kill unarmed civilians in "self defense" before we work on making them be "nice".

Unarmed does not mean not dangerous.
 
Act nice to the cops and you will find them to be pretty accommodating and helpful.

Act like a tool to the cops and you will find them about as accommodating as a warm prison shower.

Too many people push them right up to the limit and wonder why they get their asses handed to them.

If you run into a bad cop, shut your freaking mouth and report him afterwards.

This...
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

this sounds like something one would pull out of a Cracker Jacks box
 
Act like a tool to the cops and you will find them about as accommodating as a warm prison shower.

An opinion fit for an authoritarian regime, not a country in which the highest court has ruled that you may not be punished in anyway for calling a cop a "son of a bitch".



They are supposed to be here to "protect and serve", but at the very least, to enforce the law fairly when they show up to clear the mess. Beating the crap out of someone (or raping them, to use your curious analogy) because they were a "tool" is not acceptable regardless of what you want to say about human tendencies.

If you're going to recognize that human beings sometimes do wrong things when provoked, you could at least also note that the things done were wrong to do. (Unless you're actually advocating for a society where police get to beat up anyone they are annoyed with).
 
Police officers should be required to be nice to people and if they aren't they should lose their job and perhaps be incarcerated as well.

You want to jail police officers because they weren't "nice"? What's this even supposed to mean?
 
I don't care about nice, I care about rights. Cops are all to willing to violate the fourth and fifth amendment, all the while telling you they have the authority to do so. And then violate the first when you try and video them doing so.

Train the police to actually take the Constitution seriously, who can argue with that?
 
An opinion fit for an authoritarian regime, not a country in which the highest court has ruled that you may not be punished in anyway for calling a cop a "son of a bitch".



They are supposed to be here to "protect and serve", but at the very least, to enforce the law fairly when they show up to clear the mess. Beating the crap out of someone (or raping them, to use your curious analogy) because they were a "tool" is not acceptable regardless of what you want to say about human tendencies.

If you're going to recognize that human beings sometimes do wrong things when provoked, you could at least also note that the things done were wrong to do. (Unless you're actually advocating for a society where police get to beat up anyone they are annoyed with).


No where does my post fit or resemble any authoritarian regime.

People get to see few youtube videos and go straight past stupid declaring that cops are a brutal regime.
 
Far too general, vague or broad to be enforced as law. What level of niceness is required to stop an alleged perp from continuing to commit a crime in progress?

Excuse me sir, but it would be nice if you refrained from beating and stabbing the young woman like that... Oh sorry, my bad, I did not realize that you were in a hurry to eliminate a witness to a prior crime - carry on and we will arrest you shortly after you finish her off.
:lamo:mrgreen:
 
Can they give out candy too? That would be really cool. It could be an excellent way to deescalate a situation as well in the "change your state" model of conflict resolution. Some angry person might be all irate over receiving a parking ticket, but then the officer hands out a chocolate bar and suddenly the person's mental state changes. Candy not guns!

:2razz:

Actually that would work. There are studies that show that when people are given something.. they are more compliant.
 
Being nice is a two way street. If you give an officer some common decency most of the time it will be returned to you. Act like a thug and you will be treated like one.

This is pretty simple!
 
No where does my post fit or resemble any authoritarian regime.

People get to see few youtube videos and go straight past stupid declaring that cops are a brutal regime.

Other than things like this, you mean?

Act like a tool to the cops and you will find them about as accommodating as a warm prison shower.

Too many people push them right up to the limit and wonder why they get their asses handed to them.




In the omitted part, yeah, duh, don't mouth off if it's a bad cop. But shouldn't there be a part of the post where you recognize that there shouldn't be bad cops who beat the crap out of people who are aggravating?

"He had it coming" may make sense in a civilian v. civilian context, but not in a government agent vs. civilian context
 
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