In my last post on standards, I quoted an email I had received from a previous commenter, H. Carvey. One of his lines stuck out at me: “Create a sense of ownership and build confidence in the standard.” When most standards come from the top down, what’s the best way for administrators to help officers…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
What, exactly, is the standard?
My commenters on the last post got me thinking: police departments (and other professions) demand officers hold themselves to a “higher standard” of conduct. So what’s that standard? What does it mean? How are officers expected to know where the lines are? The “higher standard” is subjective These are not easy questions to answer. Young…
Just how high does the standard need to be?
Thinking about the Bozeman officer who resigned over his Facebook status updates made me think: What, exactly, do we civilians expect from our police officers? Because I’ve heard comments along the same lines from dozens of other cops. Civilians, too. Take this one from one of my own Facebook friends: “….I suffer fools not at…