{"id":3629,"date":"2016-03-22T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2016-03-22T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:00:32","slug":"part-ii-where-perf-was-perf-ect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/part-ii-where-perf-was-perf-ect\/","title":{"rendered":"Part II: Where PERF Was PERF-ect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said in the last entry (found immediately below this one), the Police Executive Research Forum had a lot of things right in its recent controversial 30-point list of suggest use of force policies.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start, then, with the Good parts. For those who didn\u2019t catch it in the last installment, it can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeforum.org\/assets\/30%20guiding%20principles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of those recommendations, Policy 11, makes me want to dance in the streets. \u201c<strong>To build understanding and trust, agencies should issue <u>regular reports to the public <\/u>on use of force.\u201d <\/strong>(Emphasis PERF\u2019s.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy to hear them say that because it\u2019s something I, and others, have been recommending for decades. If police administrators ignore us on this, perhaps they\u2019ll listen to PERF.\u00a0 For too long, the old ethos has been, \u201cWe don\u2019t try our cases in the press. The facts will all come out in court.\u201d\u00a0 However, when police are falsely accused of brutality, this silence is seen as a plea of <em>nolo contendere <\/em>by the public we serve. False memes like \u201chands up, don\u2019t shoot\u201d now become common currency, and go unchallenged, and come to be believed by a public which has not seen the evidence that contradicts the false accusation.<\/p>\n<p>I am also in agreement with their policies numbered 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29, and 30.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we believe in the sanctity of life. Documenting use of force incidents? Check. Training academy culture in line with agency values? Check. De-escalation encouraged, and the other points enumerated in the immediate preceding paragraph?\u00a0 Fine.<\/p>\n<p>Only trouble is\u2026<em>we\u2019ve been doing these things and ascribing to these values right along. The wording of the PERF report condescendingly implying that these concepts would be new to policing is nothing less than insulting to rank and file American law enforcement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>We said in the previous installment that we\u2019ll discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly here.\u00a0 Now that we\u2019ve acknowledged the Good, we\u2019ll examine the Bad and the Ugly in the installments coming up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said in the last entry (found immediately below this one), the Police Executive Research Forum had a lot of things right in its recent controversial 30-point list of suggest use of force policies.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start, then, with the Good parts. For those who didn\u2019t catch it in the last installment, it can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-issues","8":"category-politics","9":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}