PhD IT, $383 PCH, Bachelors entry, thoughts!?

[sanantone]

Did you even read my post?
So setting up a direct line to talk to the comissioner, allowing civilians to directly go into the office of any senior officer at will without appointment or through the ranks and having a live TV program where you can call and interact with heads of divisions is not community based policing? Having the abiltiy to recored without restrction officers performing duty and reporting any activtiy carried out by officers on mobile, foot or bicycle is not community policing? Seriously? Well a lot changed since I did that course. Tell Oliver and Mann they need to write new books.

And its different here. People respect the A'hole cause you cant boss him around. There are some officers people see and challenge their authority, cause they are push overs, and when they work it's a hard night. They are usually filmed getting assaulted and persons helping others escape from them. They have the shift very busy, 'heavy' as we say.

Those guys you're talking about when they are out on patrol, you can be sure the phone rings a lot less and the night passes smoothly....

Its jusy my experience. That isnt a theory and didnt come from a book, I see it everyday..

I believe you did not read what I wrote. 

Anyway, there is something in between being an a-hole and a pushover. It's called being assertive. People don't respect a-holes; they fear a-holes. When people fear the police, they often act irrationally. Some run, which only makes the officer's job harder. Some attack with or without weapons. Flight or fight is human nature. 

There are also the other a-holes who are not feared because the hardened criminal knows that he's tougher, and he will not tolerate being disrespected. The guy who came up with the Five Universal Truths of Human Interaction (verbal judo) was a former English professor with a PhD. When he became a police officer, he noticed that the more experienced officers had better communication and deescalation skills and more success on the job. When he asked how those officers developed those skills, they said it took years of trial and error. He thought that was an inefficient way of doing things, so he took what he learned from observing them and asking them questions and came up with the Five Universal Truths of Human Interaction to be taught to inexperienced officers.

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> You cannot practice how to become a pathologists' assistant at home. You need dead bodies and only equipment that a millionaire can afford.

damn, if I only had equipment I'd be set

I certainly do believe you have the dead bodies.