Rate Your Cop
Mar 15th, 2008 by director
A new web site has police officers freaking out, issuing statements that it’s making their jobs more dangerous. There’s no evidence for any such thing, of course, but lack of evidence doesn’t stop cops from freaking out every now and then, as they did back in 2006, with the coming of June 6, 2006 (6/6/2006 was supposed by them to be a Devil’s Day when crime would rise, though it never did).
The source of police panic this time is a simple web site: Rate My Cop. The web site allows people to rate individual police officers on a scale of one to five, and leave comments about their professional demeanor.
Some police have complained that such a web site could lead to increased physical attacks against police officers. Others are even calling for special laws to be made to make the site illegal.
Why? There have been no attacks against police officers that can be linked to the site. Rate My Cop just holds police officers accountable to public opinion, for good or for bad.
In an age when police officers are gaining powers to intrude into the private lives of American citizens, a little accountability in the opposite direction is a welcome thing. Cops need to remember that they’re public servants, and ought to be accountable to the people they’re supposed to be serving.
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