Students Post and Response Week 2 (for Hifsa Shakaut)

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One of the classmates who recently passed the probation as a police officer stated that he always took off his seat beat before he stops his police patrol vehicle. When the instructor heard that comment, he immediately and politely questioned whether the policies and regulations of his organization allowed him to act like that way. The answer is positively No. After hearing the statement, citizens will question whether the leaders of the police academy taught this officer to act it that way. Or his leaders allow him to act it like that. Even in front of his leader, this police officer can violate the policies and laws, citizens will question the violations of the police officers during off-duty. So this police officer further stated that his leaders never asked him what he would do after work except that he has interesting conversations on what he will do during the his days off. It is a little bit fortunate that this police officer is a fresh off the academy. The words of this junior police officer can be inferred that the leaders of the police failed to show their subordinates how to be a police officer because most of the leaders at the field of the police only care how much they will earn a year and how they can be promoted faster as well. We cannot blame on the eager promotion of the police officers due to the face that San Francisco Bay Area is huge expensive to live. Since the junior police officers can express as above stated, the leadership of the police officers will really be questioned. Hence, there are a lot of problems among the law enforcement agencies across the country.

Based on the wrongdoings of the police officers, San Francisco established the OCC (Office of Citizens’ Complaint) almost forty years ago—1982—for citizens to file an official complaint for the misconducts of the police officers. If the police officers have been making towards perfect, the city of San Francisco would not establish such office. What is the most important aspect is that this office should have been cancelled if the police forces had made great progress of their conducts. However, it is so sad that this office still exists today. That the OCC still exists today 3

proves that the problems of leaders failed to point out the misconducts of the subordinates. Actually, the leaders involve violating the ordinance.

Law ran and passed by Starbucks. He witnessed three police officers whose ranking were sergeants violating the smoking ordinance of the city by smoking next to the entrance as well as the exit of the Starbucks. He pointed out to the police officers the sign of the smoking ordinance of the city posted by the Starbucks. One of the police sergeants yelled at Law, “If you do not go away, I will use Tasers to shoot you.” Police officers are the guardians of the laws. Before enforcing the laws, the police officers should have taken the lead to obey the laws, especially leaders of the police officers. Even the police officers do not enforce all of the ordinances of the city, does it mean that police officers have privilege of violating the city ordinances? As the leaders of the police officers, the sergeant should not have threatened to use Taser when citizens point out the mistakes. The president of the US works for the citizens because he or she is elected by the citizens. Are the sergeants or leaders of the police officers higher than the rankings of the president? Are the leaders of the police officers offered the privilege to violate the ordinance? The leaders of the police officers forget to serve for the citizens so that the regular police officers forget too. This story again proves a common problem that leaders of the police officers have been failing on reflecting on themselves if they selfishlessly live up the laws they enforce by showing the examples to the lower ranking officers. If the leaders of the police officers truly lead without selfishness, one of the classmates would not have stated that he would take off his seat belt before stopping his patrol vehicle.

Because the leaders of the police force fail to truly coach their subordinates, the media can report on the bad sides of the police officers. Some police officers may argue that the news is fake. If the leaders of the police truly spend time taking care of their subordinates as well as 4

reflect on themselves, the media will stop reporting inaccuracy news on the police officers. After reporting on fake news for several times, the citizens will not trust the media. However, based on what the citizens had experienced with the police officers, they would believe the news media were reporting the true news. The news media should not have been blamed instead that the leaders of the police officers should have been blamed by failing to take care of their subordinate by really asking what their plans are for their days off. Therefore, IT IS TOO LATE TO STOP THE INCIDENTS WHEN THE PROBLEMS OF THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE REPORTED BY THE NEWS MEDIA OR BY THE PUBLIC.

One of the army values is selfless service. Leaders of the police officers really need to have the passion of selfless service by coaching their subordinates 24/7 how to obey the law first. Police officers are 24/7 even they are off-duty because the police officers are paramilitary.

What it is extremely challenging the leaders of police officers is how to win the trust of the citizens by truly demonstrating the correct way to their subordinates and lower ranking officers.

Furthermore, government shouldn’t be run like a business; it should be run like a democracy. (Denhart 2015 P1) Effectively as well as efficiently performing with productivity or running government like business will extremely be easy for the police officers to forget the nature of their duty. The classmate is so intelligent to perform the duty that the leaders completely ignore his mistakes like taking off the seat belt before the patrol vehicle fully stops. Such sugarcoat instead of really pointing out the mistakes will ruin the leaders as well as this junior police officers in the long run. If it is not that way, the leaders of the classmate should have pointed out his mistake. Due to the failure to point out the mistake by his leaders, the 5

classmate will feel proud of stating that he would take off the seat belt before stopping his patrol car.

The seat belt comment of the classmate reflects on the failure of the leaders not showing the correct procedures for the police officers. Famous Chinese saying is, “the slant of the top of the horizontal bean affects the lower horizontal beans.” The one of meanings of this quote indicates that the wrongdoings of the leaders of the police officers will reflect on the lower ranking police officers. If the leaders of the police officers truly care for their subordinates, the news media won’t fabricate any fake news to cover the bad images of the police officers.

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1. Denhardt and Denhardt (2015) The New Public Service New York Print