9 Principles

Publié le 10 juillet 2016 par kodiak

To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion; but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.

To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

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Brexit, what Brexit?

Publié le 26 juin 2016 par kodiak

The Washington Post: An astute online comment has some wondering whether Brexit may ever happen. Comment published on the web site of The Guardian UK newspaper (yes, that Guardian).

Sometimes, amid the I-told-you-so editorials and breathless think pieces that follow a major political event, the best take is actually in the comments section.

Max Bearak.

Washing Down

Publié le 9 juin 2016 par kodiak

A backpacker going by the handle of Douchepacker shows how to wash your sleeping bag in a bathtub: Washing my Enlightened Equipment Quilt for the First Time

Werner says

Publié le 23 mai 2016 par kodiak

Gig

Publié le 22 mai 2016 par kodiak

Gig economy. C’est le terme qui recouvre la structure post-Tayloriste du monde du travail.
Cet article de Fortune du 27 avril 2016, écrit par économiste spécialiste de l’histoire des relations du monde du travail, Rick Wartzman (Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University) dans vous expliquera ce que cela signifie. Avec quelques détails intéressants: les ’employés’ (qui n’en sont pas au sens du droit du travail) des Uber, TaskRabbit (qui connait cette entreprise en France?), et autres ne représentent que 0,5% des travailleurs.
Fortune cite un obscur (qui en a entendu parler?) spécialiste du monde du travail qui a prédit en 1969 (ici) l’apparition de liens différents entre entreprise et travailleur, ajoutant a l’époque que ce ne serait pas forcement au détriment de celui-ci…
Gig economy. Vous l’avez lu ici, pas sur BFM…