IRAQ

The Politics of Policing

Iraq is trying to establish a new national police force. Why the local cops want it to go away.

 
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  • Posted By: delfairchild @ 06/03/2008 5:23:09 PM

    Comment: Police are not soldiers in the sense of what is required of these IPS forces. Our police would not go into battle either if the situation was the same here at home. They either call in the National guard or the swat team.
    It sounds like the National Police can win against crime and against Terrorists so they should be encouraged to do so. Let the police catch kids stealing from the vending carts.

  • Posted By: bkbaxter826 @ 06/03/2008 2:52:54 PM

    Comment: My experience was that local IP officers could be motivated to protect their homes and neighborhoods. The problem was that their senior officers has no local ties and were drawn from a corrupt political heirarchy that had no interest, beyond financial gain, in the local population.

  • Posted By: Akmatic @ 06/03/2008 1:36:14 PM

    Comment: Yet another act of wishful thinking that sounds good on paper. As long as there are Sunni's and Shiites, nothing will ever be resolved over there and we'll continue to waste our man power and resources.

    This proposed project, like any other that involves the Iraqi people, will fail miserably due to their inability to work together.

 
 
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