Interesting article on police policies

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http://www.policemag.com/Channels/Patrol-T...ple-Fronts.aspx

Stupid Policies Are Costing Us on Multiple Fronts

Working in law enforcement is tough enough without the addition of ridiculous and often dangerous restrictions.

June 26, 2009

As part of POLICE Magazine's Maggie Award-winning State of Law Enforcement series, I wrote a feature story on police policies. Any objectivity I might have mustered in that piece was hard earned, as a primary reason for my pulling the pin and getting the hell out of Dodge in the first place was the promulgation of asinine policies I was witnessing within the law enforcement community. The longer I stayed on the job, the more likely I'd get my tit in a wringer over one of them and end up losing much more than I was otherwise willing to jeopardize (like, say, my life).

Liberated from such strictures, these days I am also largely free to write of what I want, as I want—the usual inhibiters withstanding. And I'll admit, there's been a time or two that I've used a choice pejorative herein when I didn't need to simply because I still bristled against the stifling protocols imposed by the sheriff's department. These days, I try to minimize the B.S. while refraining from spelling it out, too.

It follows that when I revisit the matter of policy herein, it is without any pretense of objectivity. There's been enough couching of sentiments that I don't see a need to perpetuate the idiocy further, especially since that's what I'm up against. So without further ado, here are some of my unsolicited reservations about modern law enforcement policies.