Hate Behaviors and Law Enforcement-A Need for Healthy Balance and Accountability?

 We love our police and many of us grew up wanting to be an officer to help their communities thrive and grow. Sometimes there are just bad personalities that are attracted to law enforcement and then use their position to exploit, extort and harass others. Where hate behaviors become apparent there needs to be an effort to move beyond looking in the other direction into investigatory action. We have a responsibility to root out corruption and ensure our law enforcement agencies work for the common good of society. 

First, corruption in general raises costs for everyone and exploits society for personal gain. It makes no difference if this is an officer (s) or this is a large corporation. The toll on society is increasingly apparent and the rest of us must flip the bill for everyone else. Keeping the system clean and efficient is important.

Secondly, the integrity and trust of the justice system requires us to remove bad apples quickly. We have seen protests, radical groups, and increased polarization in society. The best thing we can do is enhance the institution of policing by removing corrupted officers and promoting officers with values of integrity. 

Third, there are differences between one's personal opinion and giving advice to friends to circumnavigate the law, engaging in local harassment, and coordinated hate/bullying activity that not only has hurt kids as collateral damage but could have gotten someone injured or killed (I can go on a long time about the details but am saving that for when its important.). Once officers begin to engage in these behaviors they move from law enforcement to law violator and should have their "immunity" stripped (along with their badge. Its more than a shinny object...it has meaning and value to people and lets not allow corrupt officers to stain it.). 

Fourth, Sometimes there is more than just a single bad officer. Hate behaviors often come from a long line of poor thinking patterns and other destructive actions hidden from public conscious. Other times it could be a coordinated group of officers exploiting an unmonitored source of resources (i.e. money, sex, extortion, etc...).

Fifth, we cannot fix policing and restore trust without accountability. We are a single nation of people and we must act as though all life is precious. The primary purpose of law enforcement is to protect and serve and who they are protecting and serving should be doing so following universal concepts that make our country great. 

We owe it to the other victims to take concerns seriously. 

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin