Thursday, December 10, 2015
Ferguson Police Department
Today in class, a topic was brought up that when there is an increase for police in a certain area, most of those police will rush through their training and will not absorb or learn absolutely everything that needs to be learned. However, that really is not the case in Ferguson. There was never a demand for more security in a place that is being terrorized BY THE POLICE! On that note, why would you hire and train more officers but not have enough funding to give them the weapons and protection to do their job properly and SAFELY, BOTH for the police and the civilian. Growing up I always thought that gunning someone down was always the last resort, but the protocol being implied in the Ferguson Police Department says otherwise. The protocol for force is that an officer must first use a tazer, then a maze, followed by a baton and lastly, the gun. If that is the protocol then why would they even make bringing a tazer or a maze OPTIONAL?
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I agree with the points you bring up Lauren. It appears to me that the training/guidelines the Ferguso Police are supposed to follow are very open to interpretation and contradictory. They have a choice in what weapons they carry but their protocol is the fist fight, taser, mace, baton, and finally gun. So like you said, how can they follow these steps if they are missing half of their equipment? They are also ordered to achieve compliance. That is very open to interpretation which is a big problem in my opinion. They could use whatever force they believe is right because they are justified to do so. That is unbelievable to me.
ReplyDeleteExactly,and that's why there is so many questions open throughout the entire Mike Brown case, because the protocol is not at all strict and there is so many room for error, and at this point you don't know who to blame, Darren, the PTO, or the entire police department.
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