Robert Peel’s Principles of Policing(en.wikipedia.org)
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Robert Peel’s Principles of Policing
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"Policing by consent" - if you're doing it any other way, you're doing it wrong.
As a citizen of a former British colony, I'm glad we inherited this mindset in our constabulary, although there's always some who persist in the us/them thinking.
After the mosque massacre, the Police ran a trial where some Police patrols were always armed, it did little for community engagement with the 5-0: [1]
It really didn't help that they were mainly used for traffic stops, as opposed to responding to actual firearms incidents.
Then we had the (now former) Leader of the Opposition proposing "Raptor Squads" modelled after New South Wale's "Strike Force Raptor" (lasers sold separately), and that went down like a lead balloon.[2]
[1]: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
[2]: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/11/27/920773/strike-force-ra...
After the mosque massacre, the Police ran a trial where some Police patrols were always armed, it did little for community engagement with the 5-0: [1]
It really didn't help that they were mainly used for traffic stops, as opposed to responding to actual firearms incidents.
Then we had the (now former) Leader of the Opposition proposing "Raptor Squads" modelled after New South Wale's "Strike Force Raptor" (lasers sold separately), and that went down like a lead balloon.[2]
[1]: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
[2]: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/11/27/920773/strike-force-ra...
Related:
Consent Of The Governed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
Two Treatises Of Government by John Locke:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Treatises_of_Government
>"The Second Treatise outlines a theory of civil society. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, a picture much more stable than Thomas Hobbes' state of "war of every man against every man," and argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God. From this, he goes on to explain the hypothetical rise of property and civilization, in the process explaining that the only legitimate governments are those that have the consent of the people."
Locke's Second Treatise Of Government (Full Text):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm
Note that the word "consent" is used 111 times, which is a lot for an essay of this size...
"Consent Of The Governed" -- a very important root-level understanding when it comes to understanding U.S. Law...