THEY HAVE ONE JOB. JUSTICE!


One of the problems we have across society and at all levels of public administration is people leading by intimidation and not by excellence and work. Even police brutality is based on that premise. 99.99% of Ugandans have been raised to believe that corporal punishment is the solution, not knowing that it limits people psychologically to believing in fear. Personnally I was never subjected to corporal punishment my entire life, and notice that the most advanced societies do not have corporal punishment as a social norm like we here in Africa. Because what it does is create a society where people only do anything properly when there is a threat of punishement, and not out of any habit of doing things properly with attention to detail. Even the idea that people are being tortured and abducted today to unknown locations, is based on the common idea of "teaching them a lesson" rather than prosecuting them for a crime. Police and security officers should understand the bigger picture of their job, and this is one of the main problems we have here in Africa. Because generally this ends up leading to abuse, and a society used to substandard work, or providing substandard services, and people having no red lines or values when nobody is looking. First of all it should be clear in the heads of every single citizen, and especially every single police officer, that YOU ARE NOT JUDGES, and that the actual purpose of all arrests is simply to bring suspects before the courts of law. Obviously in the case of law enforcement, that can only be done if the suspect is alive and in good health. Therefore officers should control their emotions and their anger against a suspect particularly during arrests and during "operations", plus avoid what is known as "excessive use of force". They should also understand for example that the use of a fire arm must be limited to self defence (that is when the officers are being directly attacked), or when they have plausible cause to fear for their lives because of a clear imminent danger, or when public safety is clearly being jeopardized by a suspect. If all that is not abanduntly and repeatedly explained to the public abd to law enforcement institutions, it leads to a society where leaders and local police officers continue to misunderstand their powers, or even abusing their powers, taking punishment into their own hands, including by conducting heinous extrajudicial acts, when in reality the police's one job is simply to take suspects to courts of law. While it is definitely important to understand law enforcement's work as also being a necessary deterrent, plus investigating crime and protecting life and property of the people, the cardinal role of all law enforcement institutions and personnel can be summarized to ensuring two things: Public safety and justice.

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