10-03-2013, 04:09 PM
The death penalty is useless. Rage isn't tempered by it at all.
It's critical that a police department and it's citizens become a single team. Dual trust. This is how Los Angeles has dramatically reduced it's crime profile.
It used to be that the Chief of Police in L.A. essentially had a virtual lifetime job that was fairly independent of the political whims of the mayor and city council. On the other hand, most other departments, the chief is constantly used as a political football depending on who's in office and can be replaced or have their strategies altered at any time.
After the riots stemming from the Rodney King verdict, L.A. changed the way it selects police chiefs. Now, each chief continues to have autonomy over his/her department but must be evaluated and re-certified every 5 years. This allows a chief who is a tactician the freedom to implement crime initiatives. Chief William Bratton and his successor Chief Charlie Beck has used this arrangement to good effect. In general the citizens trust the police whereas before with Chief Darrell Gates, they did not.
It's critical that a police department and it's citizens become a single team. Dual trust. This is how Los Angeles has dramatically reduced it's crime profile.
It used to be that the Chief of Police in L.A. essentially had a virtual lifetime job that was fairly independent of the political whims of the mayor and city council. On the other hand, most other departments, the chief is constantly used as a political football depending on who's in office and can be replaced or have their strategies altered at any time.
After the riots stemming from the Rodney King verdict, L.A. changed the way it selects police chiefs. Now, each chief continues to have autonomy over his/her department but must be evaluated and re-certified every 5 years. This allows a chief who is a tactician the freedom to implement crime initiatives. Chief William Bratton and his successor Chief Charlie Beck has used this arrangement to good effect. In general the citizens trust the police whereas before with Chief Darrell Gates, they did not.