You can ask for perfection, and you should ask for perfection even when you know it is unachievable
Why would you ask for perfection in anything when you know it's not attainable. Should I set my employee's and interns evaluation standards so high that they cannot possibly be met...no raise for you because, though your good, you're not perfect. The perfection standard will encourage you to be better, trust me, it's for your own good...you'll benefit from never being good enough in my eyes and anything you screw up....to the gallows with you!
I expect our law enforcement to be good...good morals, good character and to abide by the law and the rules. If the law or rules are broken, I expect accountability. The punishment should fit the crime....no punishment should be formed by public opinion, media or political opinion...or the person that claims perfection should be the standard.
Wrong again. The causes of fallibility have nothing to do with the causes of great success save that you must first avoid the fails to achieve success.
Not wrong...you just don't agree....but of course, if you don't agree with Phil, you must be wrong. The most successful people are those who have failed but had the persistence to carry on....but that's not what I was talking about, to begin with, rather moot point to begin with.
Going on the premise that this was indeed a 'plant',
Thats the problem...someone sees a video....one without context....without sound....without the before or after, obviously edited and suddenly they label it as criminal, a plant, corrupt, they judge it right then and there and decalre themselves expert. Everybody jumps on the bandwagon and starts lighting torches. Name calling....bashing an entire profession, every individual involved, etc. not because they know anything personally, but simply because they can. It's easy....the cliche Blue Wall of Silence? Try the every day of "I'll say what I please without fear of incrimination and responsibility of action because of the "Anonymous Wall of the Internet." I've seen enough body worn video to know, more often than not...that it's not always as it appears. I've seen enough to know that sometimes it's exactly what it appears to be. An investigation should be evidence based...not emotion based or influenced by outside factors such as politicians, media, etc.
It is not the public who has gone wrong or who has changed; therefore the public cannot create the solution to the problem.
Horse Hockey. For the most part, most people are good and want to do the right thing. For the most part, most cops are good and want to do the right thing. There is a small portion of society that is responsible for wrong doing...and a small portion of police responsible for wrong doings. To say "I can't be wrong, therefore I can't create a solution?" Bull...we are all responsible. Our problem...as a whole....is that we fail to hold ourselves accountable and want to blame everyone else for our own shortcomings. I had a bad childhood, my daddy was mean to me when I was a child, I didn't have nice shoes like everyone else did, I didn't go to Harvard. We fall for complete and utter BS....hate to say it....that attorney's feed you during the trial. You know it's BS....I know its lies and BS when we feed it to you....yet you gobble it up and spit out an acquittal. Hey...it came out in the trial that my client is a homicidal raging maniac that killed 50 helpless women...but he had a bad childhood, and though he has worked all his life, sired a few children and was a good neighbor....he's mentally incompetent and shouldn't be held responsible...and you buy it. Stop buying the bull. Start with accountability to yourself and others. The Justice system isnt perfect by any means at all, it isnt the best...it certainly isnt the worst... Is it broken? Yup...but its the best that we have.
I cant blame the cops, I cant blame one person over the other. I suppose with the "Perfect" expectation theory I should expect perfection and not worry about having cops or court or prisons...because I expect people to perform at their highest levels of performance at ethical conduct....my expectations will cause them to strive to be better...and if they dont...I'll just get Old4570 to come over, peer into their souls and smite them. I hear he's a total badass....
Daleg, you seem to think that somehow I am anti-Law Enforcement when nothing could be further from the truth.
I dont think that at all, I know it. Most of your post reinforce it with anti police rhetoric. Its ok though, you being an expert in all things police and law.
In the US the Police have generally made themselves failures and that is the truth which you find so unpallatable.
I would strongly disagree with that. Once again, someone must have told you that all of your viewpoints are apparently fact? Police have not made themselves failures, despite the medias earnest effort to make it for them....despite anti police groups and folks like yourself who try their best to say nothing but bad about them...despite those who hate them, hurt them and spit on them...they still come when you call 911. Are they perfect...unfortunately Phil...nobody is....except for you, sorry, keep forgetting....and as much as it pains me to see an officer do the wrong thing, he or she should be held accountable...if another officer was part of it, either by engaging or watching and not stopping it...which is the same as approval...then they should be held accountable too. Should we hold them to a higher standard? Yep...so we chop off an arm for the slightest imperfection or mistake...of course not.
I am one of the exceptional people who will not settle for less than perfect or as close to that as is humanly possible and that is why you seem to have a problem with me, for you too have joined those who fail because they are not willing to do that which is necessary to achieve the best possible results.
Thats not it Phil, I dont have a problem with you at all for that....I have a problem with anyone who declares themselves exceptional, special or better than everyone else. You can't settle for less than perfect? How miserable life must be to have everyday fall short of every expectation...I wouldn't want to be your waitress. "Nope, not perfect... no tip for you!"
Instead you support the failure which many of us so clearly see, and you rarely post except to bash people who do not agree with your positions and viewpoints.
Nope...I post when I see something interesting...or have a comment...but truthfully Im just not online DCT that much. Dont get me wrong, I do really like it, but my job takes a large majority of my time. Now...I do take the time to post, not to bash those who don't agree with me but to stand up for those being bashed by those who have no clue to what they are talking about....or those with a little knowledge, just enough to be dangerous and misinform others. Knoweldge is power...ignorance is dangerous. Read thru my previous post... I only respond to those who bash the entire profession as a whole. Bash one person that you have personally had an interaction with...you deserve that, you can attest to that and have personal knowledge of that. You tend to trash a whole profession of men and women trying to do the right thing...only to have a few make them all look bad, which they hate as much as you do...but unfortunately they take the heat from people like you. So...I defend those who cannot defend themselves. I'll pursue justice for you when no one else will. I stand up to those who others wont....it doesnt make me bad. You are quick to toss out there what terrible people our law enforcement are...it's your right...but it doesnt make it right. The Constitution gives you the right of free speech...you can say what you want within reason...but you have to remember, other people can disagree with you...the street goes both ways.
You seem to be reasonably intelligent with decent potential yet you waste that trying to defend the indefensible.
Im fair to middlin in the brains dept. My mom told me I could be an astronaut....but astronaut school was all filled up, so I couldnt. Wasting time defending the indefensible? Phil, if I could, I would share some doozies with you, you'd be so proud. You really would. Even you would be impressed at the amount of beautiful BS that spews forth from my mouth. I do get things done here and there on occasion.
You need a long, soul-searching look in the mirror while trying to see yourself as others see you. Then perhaps you can begin overcoming your self-imposed limitations and become one of the exceptional people yourself.
I dont need a mirror to soul search...I'll get Old4570 to peer into the true nature of me and give the shortened Magic 8 Ball skinny...and then maybe...just maybe I can be exceptional like you and then the 3 of us can create our own World Court where we sit in judgement of everyone, smite who we want and wreak Biblical havoc on those who dont agree with us.
i was expecting a lot better.
