Don't judge until you have done it?

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vinceasneed

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As an educator, people love to talk about what we should be doing. Many people support us. But of course there are a great number who think that teachers need to doing what they feel in their opinion is right. I will tell you that it takes being an educator to really understand it. I think the same is true for cops. We can talk about all day what they are doing wrong, but it really takes being in their situation before we can understand it. I do agree that we have to keep an eye on everyone to ensure that we do catch those who do things they know is wrong, but we shouldn't make that a general rule against our law enforcement. If all of them were gone tomorrow, we would be begging to get them back.
 
Some issues aren't about judging what we don't understand. I try to read what experts in the field have to say and I feel that a lot If the problems come down to lack of food training or bad training methods, or perhaps insufficient review and practice. I know there are crooked cops, but that's a whole other issue.
 
Yes, we should stop and put ourselves in a cop's shoes from time to time. It is an extremely stressful job, and has one of the highest rates of injury and death in the workplace. Not everyone can be a cop, hence why many people don't pass the written and physical exams. However, just because the job is stressful does not mean that we should make excuses for cops. They knew how difficult the job would be the minute they began the training. They knew the rights and responsibilities they would hold as a police officer, and they need to keep them in mind at all times. Policemen are only human, and they do make mistakes, but their mistakes are much more significant than ours. Their mistakes can cost lives, and they have. We should not be so quick to blame policemen, however we shouldn't be so quick to make excuses for them either.
 
I think it is one of the best way to judge but it is truly not very practical. I am sure a lot of people are having trouble with the judgement given these days. I think it is best to try and learn the situation in a better manner.
 
I think it is human nature to Judge and when there are a few "bad apples" in the bunch we can be inclined to Judge the basket of apples negatively. To not Jude until you have walked in another shoes or have done the Job they do is a great way to go in theory, but I doubt any of us can do that 100 percent of the time in every situation no matter how much we would like to and try to be mindful to, there will always be at least one area or subject that we judge based on preconditioned opinions and previous experiences.
 
I don't envy you at all, vinceasneed! Teachers get so much flack and are criticized whatever they do. I get really annoyed when I hear people say that teachers get a shorter working day and plenty of holidays. They don't. They are at the school way before the kids and don't leave til well after they've gone. They don't get the full summer off either, there are plenty of training days they have to attend, plus meetings and lesson planning. Teachers are very much under-appreciated.
 
vinceasneed said:
As an educator, people love to talk about what we should be doing. Many people support us. But of course there are a great number who think that teachers need to doing what they feel in their opinion is right. I will tell you that it takes being an educator to really understand it. I think the same is true for cops. We can talk about all day what they are doing wrong, but it really takes being in their situation before we can understand it. I do agree that we have to keep an eye on everyone to ensure that we do catch those who do things they know is wrong, but we shouldn't make that a general rule against our law enforcement. If all of them were gone tomorrow, we would be begging to get them back.
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I have heard this "walk a mile in a police person's shoes" before. It is hard for me to have empathy, because they chose this profession, and this life. No one forced it on them. Being a cop means being under the microscope from many sources, including superiors, city and government officials, and the public. If a person cannot handle the psychological aspects of the job, along with the physical, they might want to consider another career path. I have seen plenty of young rookies leave my local police force after a year, and sometimes less. I think part of it is that they didn't like to be under the gun as much as they are.
 
It is really practical if you do not judge if you have not done anything of that sort of crime. I totally believe it is quite awesome to try and learn everything about the crime before actually judging it.
 
You know what? I'm going to go ahead and say I don't really care. I get that we should have empathy and not go overboard. I get we should not make general statements. I get that a job might be stressful. But if your job is going to have such a huge influence on people -- and for cops, that is a whole of influence on society as a whole and on some targeted groups, sometimes -- I am darn well going to allow myself to judge. You know why? Because, as with teachers, I had excellent teachers. Teachers who cared, who were smart, who were good at it, teachers who made kids feel like they mattered and who made them learn and love to learn. And I had bad teachers. Like I've met some great cops -- and because of this, I know that some of them are not great cops. Some of them are petty, brutal, abuse their powers. I mean, we have a whole industry where we criticize stuff like art, literature, cinema, food; domains where there is no real "right answer", because everything falls into a spectrum of interpretation and creativity. Teaching, to an extent, also has different ways of going about it. Protecting people? I'm pretty sure that if you are beating up innocent people instead of protecting them, you are fully in the wrong. Try to convince me otherwise, now.
 
All professions have rules and regulations and they have their own language so to speak. Where everything gets out of whack, is when the rules and regulations start being abused. I know there are certain situations that don't apply, but as long as the guidelines are kept and followed, everything usually turns out alright.
 
You have a point, cops deal with a lot on a day to day basis, it's a lot of crazy people out there , so it can be a stressful job. I just hope that the corruption would stop, but it's much deeper then law Enforcement. They are just doing their jobs for the most part. The same with education, the problems are much deeper then the teachers and the students. I'm more unset with the system as a whole, not individual people.
 
I agree we shouldn't criticize their every move, but when it comes to them shooting innocent people, then we can start judging. Not because we are police officers, but because we are people, and it is our right to judge people by their actions when it comes to playing with another man's life.
 
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