What would patrol look like in the feature? Talk about Protesting. Desponding the police (not enough) Why does society need the police? Justify why the need for the police
Talk about Protesting.
Desponding the police (not enough)
Why does society need the police?
Justify why the need for the police
Talk about the task, obstacles, recruitment, whether or not law enforcement have too much on their hands
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Gordon Graham here and Happy New Year to you and all close to you! This is the time for “resolutions” and thinking about the future – another year has passed – what will happen not only this next year, but in the next decade?
I have always been fascinated with “predictions” – and the people who make them – and how rarely do any of their “predictions” actually occur. Here are some of my favorite “failures” over the decades:
“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty ‒ a fad.” – President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903
“You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.” – Kaiser Wilhelm, 1914
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” – The New York Times, 1936
“TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” – unknown, from The New York Times, 1939
“No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.” – U.S. Secretary of Navy, December 4, 1941
“The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn’t mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.” – Hermann Göring, 1942 (On a personal note, I have done work over the years at Bramshill House – a beautiful country estate outside of London and for years the home of the National Police Academy. Goring told his bombers in WW2, “Do not bomb Bramshill House – that will be my country estate after this war is over.” So how did that work out for you, Hermann?)
“If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” – W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca Recording Co., rejecting The Beatles, 1962
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
“You’ll never make any money out of children’s books” – Advice to JK Rowling from Barry Cunningham, editor at Bloomsbury Books, 1996
Enough of the travel through history. Personally, I have made some serious mistakes in “predictions” I have made over the decades. When I got my first Kindle – I did not think that libraries would continue to exist – and I was wrong on that. When Airbus started making non-metal planes, I thought that would be a passing fancy. When my fellow car friends told me that someday there would be a 30+mpg Corvette on the road – I laughed aloud. Accurate predictions are tough to make.
But we must recognize the difference between “predictions” and “projections.” While it is difficult to predict something with precision, there are “trends” that we can see and see that things are changing.
RECOGNIZING HOW THE POLICING PROFESSION IS EVOLVING
My employment in law enforcement was with one agency – the California Highway Patrol – and when I hired on in 1973, I knew I was a “traffic officer.” I would be enforcing traffic laws – and that was what I wanted to do.
As the years passed, I saw that the job I signed on to was changing. There were many stories about autonomous cars while “The Jetsons” was a comedy cartoon, which made me think that someday the CHP would have different responsibilities. When I mentioned that at “staff meetings,” I was dismissed as a rambling psycho. Take a look at where the CHP is today, and it is an entirely different (and much better) agency than when I was a motor cop in the 70s.