Police Executive Research Forum’s Do Nothing Standards

By John Farnam

Police Executive Research Forum
Police Executive Research Forum
Defense Training International, Inc
Defense Training International, Inc

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) is ostensibly and organization made up of “police executives” who seek to “improve policing.”

In my opinion, it is little more than a police-hating, leftist-front, dedicated only to advancing leftist politics.

PERF recently published a list of thirty new “standards” with regard to police use of deadly force, which they are currently promoting.

The stated goal is to “reduce police shootings,” justified or not! For example, they want police to be absolutely prohibited from shooting at moving cars, unless someone in the car is shooting at them. So, when an officer is about to be crushed to death by a violent murderer driving a car, he may not shoot the driver through the windshield in order to save his own life. He is required to simply allow himself to be murdered, rather than defend himself.

Thus, police shooting are “reduced!”

Curiously, in publishing these suggested “standards,” PERF cites no supporting research, except their own “study.” On the committee who wrote the standards, there are no street cops and no subject-matter experts, just “executives.”

Worst of all, these “standards” are all outcome-based (sometimes called “ prophecy-based”). It is a leftist staple, and here is what that means:

They contend that all “poor choices” made by police officers are Constitutionally impermissible. Well, how do we know that choices made by responding officers were poor ones? We know, because there was a “bad outcome,” eg: a violent felon is killed by police gunfire. Had “better choices” been made, they naively assume no one would have been hurt. Officers should have known in advance, should have been able to precisely predict the future.

So, any time there is a “bad outcome,” involved officers must all be prosecuted, because they are assumed to have made “poor choices,” and thus automatically “violated policy.”

The beauty of “doing nothing” is that it can always be done perfectly! No one can ever find fault in the “way” you did nothing. As soon as you step forward to act, as police are paid and expected to do, someone (in the aftermath) will point out where you could have done it better! According to PERF, where there was (at least in theory) a “better way,” then the officer involved needs to be prosecuted for his failure to be perfect!

You can see what a can of worms this is!

Our officers will thus be encouraged to “do nothing” and “take no action.” In fact, they are threatened with prosecution when they take any action that leads to a “bad outcome,” which is always assumed to be prima-fascia evidence of their falling short of perfection!

I have scant patience with these leftist clowns! Their self-representation of “moral superiority” is merely cowardice, masquerading as “piety.”

“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”

 

/John

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Blue

Check out the educated negro chimpess in that video ! LMFAO !

Sue

YAY! For police reform. Police = the biggest most deadliest and racist gang in the USA

X-Ring

Don’t forget that this outfit is an outgrowth of the International Association of Chiefs of Police which went bankrupt back in the 1980s because of the financial misconduct and incompetence of the leadership of the IACP of that time. But not to worry, because along came Sarah Brady who offered to “bail them out” with a large infusion of cash IF THEY AGREED TO SING THE GUN CONTROL ANTHEM THAT SHE WROTE FOR THEM FROM THEN ON. All they had to do was accept her handout. To make a long story short, they took her money and have been taking… Read more »

ChicagoGuy

“Our officers will thus be encouraged to “do nothing” and “take no action.” Police don’t have to do anything. You cannot sue police for failing to respond to any call. They can stand around and watch while a family is axe murdered. If Farnam is supposed to be one of the top trainers out there, his level of legal knowledge is poor. You can tell he was never in the military. Farnam trains tons of cops, so advancing the criminal police state is to his economic advantage. Farnam sounds like the cop lovers in Illinois that made excuses when NRA… Read more »

PapaBear

I blame weak parenting. Yes, you read that correctly…weak parenting of the next generation. I’m not saying we should beat our kids into submission…but I am suggesting we guide them, and discipline as necessary, and in a spirit of humility and love. Teaching basic principles of selflessness, respect for others and for those in authority, is critical for the next generation to succeed. Unfortunately, our “me-based” society has been bred by lazy, selfish parents who are teaching the next generation their “rights”, how to “work the system”, and trying to be their child’s friend, as opposed to their parent. Those… Read more »

Jim

Rather than blanket assumptions and criticisms, do a simple search of YouTube for the homeless guy in Arizona who was shot in the groin by a cop with a shotgun. Look at the video of the intoxicated 65 year old fat guy who was 20 feet away from police, yet yielding a straight razor – and was shot dead, Look at the video’s of cops shooting family pets and even service animals. Look at the video in Michigan of the 17 year old kid who was improperly tazed and then shot because he would not give the officer his license… Read more »