You should become an "insider" because I am not your puppet or mouthpiece. Instead of me going to work and saying "hey guys I met this dude in the internet and he has this opinion on this and it got me thinking....." You should become my boss (not hypothetically but literally) or over some direct change by joining and changing stuff on the street.
You really do have a good ideas and viewpoints. Your one of the few that's a regular poster that I actually listen and try to change stuff or at least stop and rethink for a moment.
But at the end of the day your just a anonymous dude on the internet postng some ideas and opinions (even if they are good ones). That means your literal affect on anything is well.. Minimal if at all. Even if you somehow retrained my thinking I'm one dude on the street. If you were my chief you'd implement ideas to about 300.
Make sense?
Finally, we do disagree on some points. If I disagree you can't expect me to affect change that you want because you asked real nicely. If you want change YOU change it.... Thats said with respect.
I'm not sure what you are referring to. I explicitly stated that "you" (a cop), in that other thread way back when, are in a better position to effect change than any outsider. I, as a civilian, must resort to persuasion, persistence, and fortitude, and hope that a top cop will institute change. (honey)
On the other end of the spectrum is the civil suit. That is a avenue that places cops on the defensive and engenders resentment. The "why they picking on me for doing my job" mindset. All this really does is reverse any gains and will increase resistance to change in the future. (vinegar)
My efforts to casually/informally get my local cop shop to think beyond mere "training" and to lead and manage yield little in the way of results. I am by no means a expert on LE but I can read the laws just as any cop can read the laws. A "field manual" is not much use when cops don't read them or think they know what is in them without even opening the book. Specifically, firearm laws here in MO, they ain't complicated or long reads yet cops have a difficult time understanding the few words used in the few firearm laws we do have. Then there is the top cop who happens to disagree with the law(s) and institutes policies that are all but directives to violate rights and the law.
I'd much rather a top cop take my idea(s) and call them their own, take the credit, I'll be satisfied with cops respecting rights and following the law. Yet, my suggestions are rarely acknowledged and when they are it is usually a hollow reading of "Thanks, I'll take it under advisement." Heck, it's a chore to even get a glimpse of the LEAs policy handbook or their field manual. Not sure why such secrecy is needed, though, some LEAs seem to have stacks of them at every C-store, just not my cop shop.
I don't have all the answers to every cop shop issue, not interested in the vast majority of their issues, except where firearms and the lawful carry thereof is concerned. I let cops do what they do best and I keep providing suggestions to make the cop shop/citizen dynamic agreeable to all where firearms concerned.
