ROFL! OMG, that is so juicy, the tears of joy rolled all the way out onto the street at my house!

Flag and star here, no question!

OMG, where to even start why this is such a good idea!

First: It's about damn time we the citizens had something to say publicly about officers in a way that makes them accountable to the world at large. And why shouldn't we? All we are given is the pen, while they harbor all the swords! Wassa matta, afraid of the pen are we? Seems to me this brings entire new meaning to a recent little ATS debate between the Vagabond and Semperfortis.

Secondly, note the article says that no personal information is published, putting the officers at no risk. The only risk they face from it is- TADA! THE PEN. But hold on a minute. Even if their information was public, which in my mind should be, fair is fair. They have easy access now, with the recently established national database, to every single bit of personal information collected on the citizens, with a mere mouse click. So why can't citizens at least comment on their performance?

I FRIGGIN LOVE IT. Not to mention it is causing my mind to RACE with other similar ideas.

As most of you know who have seen my posts, know I am currently a Law Enforcement Officer. Being such here is my take on this site.

I have no problems with the idea of the site. I think it could be a good thing for officers to be rated by the citizens he/she works for and comes in contact with. Now of course there is some concerns as well, not just because I am a LEO, but just COMMON SENSE should tell you, this could go to far...here is why.

First thing is, it is the internet. ANYONE, from anywhere could go on and lie about officers conduct. I could log on right now not ever meeting or dealing with an officer from all over the country and falsely say a certain officer is abusive, or unprofessinal. I could have had a run in with the law and just because I am not man enough to except I did something wrong, log on and lie about my experiance with officers/departments. So how accurate/reliable will it actually be? Hell just look at some of the posts on this site when it comes to Law Enforcement....hate is the majority. So even if an officer was professional, courteous, and did their job right, the pure hate for us "pigs" or "Nazi's" (as many of you love to call us) would only make you say negative stuff anyway.

Now one last thing...as I stated, I don't mind the site as long as it gives just the name and department in which you work for, as thats public information anyway. What I WILL NOT support, is if officers/deputies home addresses, phone numbers, etc are posted. Then you do risk injury or tactics against that LEO's family (wife,husband,children, etc). That is unexceptable, or should be by ANYONE's standard.

So again, have the site..no problem here. Can you actually trust the site? That will be tough as I said, to many things to not keep good oversight. And finally remember, the hate/anger you feel towards us should stay towards us, so as long as our families are not involved...then again...I am fine with it.

[edit on 3/8/2008 by rcwj75]

i'm sorry you feel this way. i would have liked to hear YOUR OPINION also on this subject...
my intention's are not to comment on this , but read what everyone else has to say in their own word's , good or bad freind...
now back to the real subject of ratemycop.com .........

I just checked out the sight! What a great idea This is a great way to police our police. There is absolutely nothing given about the officer that would comprimise their privacy. There is absolutely no reason that an officer should object to this site. Those who do have something to hide, IMHO.

Great Website!!!!!!

The second post my friend. To start with he called the police Nazis. There is much more but, that should serve as an explanation.

Back to the OP's point, what's your opinion on the linked website?

It was the "Nazi" reference that got the other user to state what he/she did. Iron's second sentence.

Sorry for the short post but wanted to clear that up....

I can think of no other profession where job performance is not evaluated; either by superiors or the marketplace.

Being as how it is tax dollars that pay a LEO salary; it should be up to the people that pay his or her salary to evaluate their performance.

Of course no personal information should be included.

The Blue Code of Silence actually hurts police/citizen interaction and trust.
It should end and their should be complete transparency of police corruption, graft and abuse of power.

There should be citizen review panels working in conjunction with internal affairs. With monthly drug and alcohol testing of the rank and file and Superior officers of police/sheriff/highway patrol/prison guards. No exceptions.

Any violation of the Law by LEOs should be treated the same as anyother citizen instead of hushed up and ignored. Spousal abuse included!!!



[edit on 8-3-2008 by whaaa]

I see your position and respect you opinion.

To me, I see the grossly negative generalizations about police as an issue. To many those kinds of characterizations are irrelevant. To me, it's not minor and a point worth arguing about.

I think most cops are good, honest and caring people. They don't take the job for fame or fortune. They are the butt of constant criticism and critique.

IMO, many of the discussions that take place here are proffered on a bed of dishonesty or at the very least the arguments put forth are so heavily biased that any discussion that follows is moot because the original assertion is incorrect to begin with.

In my limited experience, most people that have a problem with LEOs are those that are constantly on the wrong side of the law.

My opinion is thus: to have such a negative opinion of the police and to cast them in such a negative light comes from personal experience. Otherwise, why would you - the royal you - have a vested interest?

I see police in their cars, doing their thing and that’s about he extent to which I engage local law enforcement. I don’t have a negative opinion of them because what they do from day to day doesn’t affect me. I am not putting myself in a position to warrant police attention. So, they do their job, I go about my business and that's, that.

Further, IMO, I notice that most of the charges of abuse, negligence, corruption, etc against police come from “frequent fliers” of the criminal justice system.

BTW, I am not suggesting anyone on this thread is on the wrong side of the law, or anything like that.

Finally, I see humans as intrinsically good, with some bad apples. Police are no exception.

[edit on 8-3-2008 by SlightlyAbovePar]

Great idea really . Its not like you cant get the info with addresses from the from the phone book at most times.

I haven't checked it out yet. Will in a few . If all they offer is name badge # maybe car # department. And there problems/support for said officer. Then it sounds great.

Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
The second post my friend. To start with he called the police Nazis. There is much more but, that should serve as an explanation.

Back to the OP's point, what's your opinion on the linked website?

Ah, i'm sorry, i'm not paying attention. I saw that your reply was to Ironman and assumed it was the first post...didn't notice the second post was his also.

As regards the website; it's harmless, but pointless. I can't see what the Police would be up in arms about. It's not like they're going to be hauled in for a review on a bad rating from a possible disgruntled speeder. I view this as more of a novelty than anything useful.

What a great idea this site is. Good cops have nothing to worry about, while I'm pretty sure that crooked cops may lose some sleep over this.

Wow. This is a stellar idea. I must make some calls.... "rate-your-whatever"... hmmm. Excellent. ironman433 "what is for them to hide from us?"... exactly. what? Who is in the employ of whom? Socks don't wear feet.

I know some great cops and I know some that I really have serious concerns about. Sites like this "could" go a long way to re-energize the public trust. Now if they'd just patrol a little more in my area - on foot and bikes. Maybe say hello... clean up the "Gang" crap. Oh well, all those new recruits cost money to train and equip... the community is just a side-issue to the maintenance and feeding of the Taser-generation policing infrastructures.

Cheers,

Vic

I would love to see this kind of thing expanded to Canada.

Where I live, the police are in charge of investigating themselves and the public has very little confidence in their ability to be impartial.