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| Written by Administrator | |
| Saturday, 12 June 2004 | |
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The argument here is not that police don't at times need to do some unsavory, and unorthodox things in their job to deal with emergencies, and to enforce law, but the fact that there is no (by law) objective means in place in this nation, much less in the state of California, to monitor the validity and appropriateness of these practices.
We here do not think we are asking for too much...quite the contrary. In our day and age of immense technological advance, to have simple recording devices capturing suspect/police interaction; to have in place computer tracking of all police performance/discipline records; and to have the "non-personal," " business related" portions of police officer files made a matter of Public Record are all simple, reliable, cost-effective means to secure our most fundamental values as sacred beings (human and civil rights). Yet these few basic measures have been/are/and will be harder to bring about into reality (in this "freest country on the planet") than it was to bring down the Berlin Wall, due to very politically powerful police officer and prison guard unions across this nation. We ask you and them this simple question, why? Why the knee jerk rebuke of unimpeachable, unassailable evidence gathering means? Why the knee jerk need for secret police disciplinary files in a free state?
Thank you very much for acting out your own conscience. This is your deepest humanness. Administrator |
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