Watched an interesting programme on the Discovery channel the other day. It said that an awful lot of the SS and concentration camp guards where ex policeman.
As we approach the next meltdown, I wonder if the police force is recruiting the same/similar people that Germany did in the 1930s. I fear the traditional honest policeman is very rare these days.
Watched an interesting programme on the Discovery channel the other day. It said that an awful lot of the SS and concentration camp guards where ex policeman
Can you give me any other reference to this Manta - time, date or name of the programme? And if such people were indeed recruited, how does that shape whatever point it is that you're trying to make?
I wonder if the police force is recruiting the same/similar people that Germany did in the 1930s
That doesn't really make sense Manta as I don't think the police force - or the wartime German version of it - was wholly charged with performing duties at these places, so why would any future force operating at a time of the next emergency recruit ex-officers (or people who think in a particular way) to staff establishments that may well never exist in a conflict that may well bear little resemblance to the nature and sequence of events witnessed during WW2?
Also, by comparing an unknown quantity (the next meltdown) with a known (insofar as history can be relied upon to convey a wholly accurate representation of any given situation) is rather pointless other than to impinge the reputation of those people presently working as police officers - or hoping to do so.
I fear the traditional honest policeman is very rare these days
That's a vast generalisation in what is a very prejudicial piece Manta - on what basis do you to make such assertions?
As many will know I am an ex police officer and, being a big boy, can take (and have taken) a fair few insults from those who have neither time nor regard for the work the police must do, but it's disappointing to me to see how your comments can be painted in such general terms.
I have said on many occasions that I'm concerned by the way modern policing has developed to respond to present day threats (some perceived - others realised), to the behaviour exhibited by many of those in this society, to satisfy a business model and the aspirations of those within the force hoping to make it further up the ladder of power and influence and to accommodate political will.
I'm even more alarmed to see dedicated units of heavily armed officers being organised to deal with any situation deemed to fall within their terms of reference, more so, I’m further alarmed by the distinct possibility that general police units may well be drafted to deal with legitimate street protest in a way that reflects the political will of the day – but, when all is said and done, we need police officers on the streets to enforce the law in a fair, sensible and proportionate way and to maintain whatever semblance of normality passes for life on the streets of this country.
As I have been part of that Establishment I know the many short-comings it exhibits from time to time and the many failings of some of those members who have been/are part of it, but to try to suggest that the police force can in some way be linked to concentration camp guards and the supposed mind-set they must have had at the time is taking things to the extreme and, furthermore, is an insult to all those people who choose to serve their community by putting a uniform on their back and facing whatever society has to throw at them.
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