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ebonypearl at 05:44pm on 24/07/2009
ebonypearl at 05:44pm on 24/07/2009Not cut deliberately.
So,the President is man enough to apologize, but the police can't.
Figures. Police can make any mistake they want,up to and including killing innocent people and they not only don't apologize, they refuse to admit they did anything wrong.
Perhaps they should take a lesson from the President and "listen to each other." Had the officer bothered to listen to the professor, the situation might never have escalated to an arrest.
I wish the police would learn that one simple lesson: listen.
And it wouldn't hurt them to apologize when they do make quite human mistakes. An apology can ease a lot of things. Apologies - good ones - make society a better place.
So,the President is man enough to apologize, but the police can't.
Figures. Police can make any mistake they want,up to and including killing innocent people and they not only don't apologize, they refuse to admit they did anything wrong.
Perhaps they should take a lesson from the President and "listen to each other." Had the officer bothered to listen to the professor, the situation might never have escalated to an arrest.
I wish the police would learn that one simple lesson: listen.
And it wouldn't hurt them to apologize when they do make quite human mistakes. An apology can ease a lot of things. Apologies - good ones - make society a better place.
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Law and custom in many cases PUNISH you for "doing the right thing". One reason large companies often do things a certain way that seems penny-wise and pound-foolish is that there are regulations that stockholders can use to sue those running the company if they've done something to drop the value of the company -- even if that was done specifically to increase a LONG TERM growth prospect -- because the stockholders don't really care what happens in 20 years, or 40, or 60; they want their 3-5 year return.
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Recent studies show that doctors who apologize for medical mistakes are less likely to be sued for malpractice. Apologies make people feel better.
If the police would 1) become familiar with the people (not just the regular criminals) in their precinct, 2) listen to the people they confront, and 3) apologize when they make a mistake, people would respect them more,cut them more slack (it's a tough job,we understand stress can make bad things happen, acknowledging that through an apology shows that the police care about the people paying their salaries), and be happier to give them pay raises.
When police have a God-Complex (refusing to listen, insisting theyknow best, riding rough-shod over citizens, destroying private property when they show up at the wrong address,shooting people's pets,being trigger happy and shooting unarmed people...),people start hating the police and are quick to find fault with them.
So, I don't care what they are "taught", I care that they do the right thing in spite of neolithic training.