Policing

How do you usually think about policing in relation to civility and ethics?

How do you currently attempt to defend democracy against corrupt politicians, corrupt police, mobs of deluded citizens, organised and disorganised crime gangs, other opportunistic bullies, greedy media moguls, overly privileged cliques, intrusive tabloid journalists, rude photographers and dangerous foreign governments, especially if you currently regard yourself as a good police officer?

What do you know about police corruption in Australia and other countries, even if you are not currently a police officer?

Perhaps you regard investigative journalism as a job to do when police officers are apparently incapable of doing the job they are meant to do. 

How do you define good policing?

Politicians, bureaucrats, police officers, legal practitioners, members of royal households and members of royal families rarely follow the rule of law consistently well.  They do not even know the policies they are meant to follow or the consequences of those policies.  They do not provide trustworthy leadership and are incapable of doing so.

Who, then, is providing trustworthy leadership, and how?

What is the basis of trustworthiness in relation to leadership, in your view, and why?

There are greedy, arrogant people everywhere.  They act with impunity through a willingness to tell lies, as though it is their job to do so.

They have no morality.  They may even regard themselves as sales people or carers or public servants or political staffers or political leaders or members of royal households or representatives of the state and/or society.

Such individuals may even be willing to steal the life savings of grieving people, through false promises of happy 'retirement' living, 'caring' nursing homes, 'worry-free' private 'health' insurance, and/or through encouraging predatory, purportedly charitable 'giving' and/or through claims of investment 'growth' and/or economic 'growth'.

Where is the evidence that you are doing your best to prevent all sorts of deceptive practices and the associated harm?

What do you know about policing in relation to royalty?

What do you know about policing in relation to people regarded as of low social status?

What do you know about policing in relation to climate injustices?

Good jobs rightly belong to good people, wherever those jobs are located.

However, there are many useless jobs performed every day in the world and quite a few very bad jobs indeed, including unnecessarily dangerous ones.

Such jobs are kept going by narcissists who mainly seek to maintain their own self-importance at the expense of everyone else.

That particularly applies to the provision of military jobs and bureaucratic jobs and policing jobs and political jobs and executive jobs and sales jobs and any menial job performed for less than a living wage.

When only the greedy rich have real political power, the middle class disappears into desperation.

The working poor have never had political power, even though very well-paid controllers of labour unions have sometimes claimed otherwise.

The strategy of divide and rule causes competition not only between advantaged and disadvantaged people but also between groups of disadvantaged people, and sometimes even between relatively privileged groups.

And journalists in the pockets of the greedy rich narrate falsehoods about unseemly, petty conflicts to distract attention away from the truth about structural injustices. 

Perhaps you are worried that political kindness would put you out of a job, particularly if you are gain an income through legal practices, political practices, policing practices, public administration or military pursuits.

Aggression continues to be cruelly enabled by arrogant sycophants in bureaucracies, the military and policing.  They serve the greedy for a few flashes of reflected glory.

Similarly co-dependent persons enable cruelty and debauchery to be perpetuated in households, workplaces, touristic situations and political situations.

What do you know about the dangers of debauchery and the causes of the associated cruelty?

The reforms of laws are urgently required in the public interest, particularly in relation to public health, including the health of law enforcement personnel and medical personnel.

How do you support good politicians, good law enforcement officers, well-informed citizens, well-organised community volunteering efforts, equality of opportunity, quality media, great talents and peaceful international relations?

What is your awareness of the structure of law enforcement in Australia and other countries?

What is your awareness of the structure of official punishments in Australia and other countries?

What is your awareness of the structure of unofficial punishments in Australia and other countries?

The law itself is a code of conduct.  Legislators, members of the legal profession, decision-making public servants and law enforcement officers must therefore have the most stringent codes of conduct.

If you have been investing in urgent reforms, how have you measured the return on that investment?

Only when the enforcement of good laws is adequately fair and suitably consistent can a society be improved, at least when the laws of nature are adequately respected.

What do you know about respect in relation to civility and policing?

If you have been investing in political kindness, how have you measured the return on that investment?

The human world is shaped by conflicting forces, and so is the natural world.

The human world and the natural world are often in conflict with one another.

Investing in anything contradictory or otherwise conflicting is not a good idea.

What is your acquaintance with contradictory policing?

Please ensure you are investing in the quality analysis of events as a priority, especially if you are a police officer, a journalist or any other employed investigator.

How carefully and consistently are you investing in quality of life?