In America our street patrolmen are our first line of defense
against our law breaking segment of society. Rookie patrolmen
don't know much when they start their careers as they are at
an apprentice level of knowledge. As time goes on they learn
the ins and outs of their job from on going education from
their superiors, their partners, other patrolman, local colleges,
from their first hand experience and from the crooks themselves.
All of us in society have a personal history, and we draw
from that personal history to make judgments for our future
actions and decisions. Policemen during their careers have
learned that a disproportionate number of lawbreakers belong
to minority groups and rightly scrutinize these groups more
intently than others.
We ask of these men and women to place themselves in harms
way daily to protect you, me and our children. In so doing,
these brave men and women hone a fine instinct from situational
personal history, a skill built to keep them alive. As a fly
fishing guide I often taught people to fish, setting the hook
was part of the skill, you have 100'th of a second to set it.
This doesn't provide any time to think, there is only reaction
time; instinct and reaction learned during situational personal
history from missing the hook set on many fish. Often, times
reaction time is all a Policeman has in a fluid situation.
Policeman stay alive to protect us another day by exercising
their situational personal history skills, i.e., survival skills
by using every tool in their bag, instinct, reaction, knowledge,
and history. Are there mistakes? yes, Is this a perfect world?
No.
All this hoopla about racial profiling is a bunch of hogwash
granted politically correctness has demonized racial profiling
as a horrible activity, however, an honest person must
concede that since a disproportionate number of historical
offenders belong to minority groups, that "racial profiling" and "historical
profiling" are synonymous, no honest person could
argue that historical profiling is wrong. Furthermore, it is
their duty to carry on and put their hard earned knowledge
of police work history to the best use possible, not ignore
it!
If America is to demand of our patrolman not to use what
they have learned on the job while building their personal
history and education of the streets, I think it only fair
that all politically correct imbeciles do the same and erase
their bogus, liberal, misrepresentation of common sense personal
history conveyed to them by pseudo cultural referees and maybe
then the world could be a better, safer and saner place. |