GRACE USA

To law enforcement, we owe the deepest apology. 

We have asked them to do something which is impossible to do. We’ve asked them to protect and serve us but then we haven’t done our part to ensure that the laws they enforce aren’t prejudice or bias towards any groups or individual or that they do not cause unnecessary hardship to those persons or people. Part of that is we have not given them the training or the resources that they would need for them to be fully successful. The vision provided to these agencies is not clear and the roles of each member which seem outwardly to be easy to understand are actually not clear when looked at closer. Then there is the social standing of law enforcement officers which is not on par with the importance that they should command which by all rights is deserving of an applause each time any member of law enforcement walks into any room to the point of annoyance for providing us with the environment that we can live our lives the way we do. The way we choose. 

It’s because the nature of the task we have asked of law enforcement and the vital product that they produce that we must find a way to ask them in a clearer voice to accomplish tasks that are accomplishable and with greater degrees of safety for all parties and safer communities with each action they take. 

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Law enforcement has a special relationship to those they must enforce the law with.

 

GraceUSA understands that United States law enforcement officers deal predominantly with adult survivors of early childhood abuse who law enforcement agencies of all types were bound to protect and failed to do so for many different reasons of all types but at the end to the day law enforcement officers are dealing with individuals they should have protected from the experiences that would cause them later in life to be predisposed to anti-social behaviors and thus law enforcement contact. The simple reason being that those experiences often lead to undesirable actions later is that they failed at a time they were developing are changed in very real and predictable ways and are then actually slightly different then those who were not forced to adapt in that manner. That’s where the difference lives. Law enforcement deals with a subset of individuals labeled as offenders that are consuming large amounts of time, effort, and financial resources by committing, mainly property offenses, and theft related crimes due to not seeing or feeling as if there are avenues to get the things that they need and want any other way, and that is because there in fact really aren’t ways for them to obtain those things any other way currently outside of using anti-social methods. The very rigid nature of the term Law Enforcement in some ways highlights the issue. Law integration officers is a term that would describe the totality of all the agencies whose task it is to provide stability and safety to our world and in a way that doesn’t necessarily hold any group or individual back from succeeding in the ways they are able to be successful.

 

How is law enforcement supposed to do their job dealing with so many people committing crimes who really only have an inability to communicate their needs in an appropriate way and will only communicate their needs when a viable and reasonable chance that communicating them will result in them meeting what their need is. Those that we pay to uphold the law for us as a career has to make sense of things like this commonly and among other new things and information/ situations as part of their job. They require many levels and areas of professional expertise at a moments notice and all while at any minute risking all they hold dear.

 
Adult survivors of childhood abuse have paid for the help they may need in the future when they fell thru the cracks when young having been failed by so many people. Some of the individuals of this  group have endured which actually amounts to countless felony level offenses in some cases and yet receive no support or consideration outside of access to a large hypothetical hammer that will strike them when they misbehave and without thought of how differently the strike my effect them or how the strikes will effect those who witness their loved one being struck. The initial harms to these individuals happening under the watch of every single active law enforcement officer in the United States during the time of the abuse, teachers, nurses and family members as well. How can the perspective of these adult survivors of abuse be similar in any way even to those who are not that in nearly every case where a perspective of the two types is relevant.

Our law enforcement officers are excellent for the most part but while most are towing the line others are running their own program due to the inconsistent nature of the tasks they are asked to complete and for not enough pay, under equipped, out numbered and ultimately their policies and procedures are not founded on strong moral ground in all cases hence the general idea that our law enforcement agencies are not necessarily morally correct at times or not always seen as good guys but yet they do the best they are able as things are.

Our law enforcement officers are crucial to our way of life but not supported well enough and their missions not defined in ways even nearly reasonable enough due to one main issue. 

Lack of funding. Properly funded these men and women would have a stronger group of candidates to draw from and better methods to utilize as in given the opportunity our law enforcement agencies  would certainly have divisions who’s mission would be to address the need to reward for good behavior and also to root out the causes that may lead private citizens to commit crimes and literally correct those items that with positive intention and knowing that in any way people are forced to do other than what comes naturally problems arise. 

Unfortunately modern sciences and popular opinions of the people, all the people, that the officers work for have yet to appear in the methodology of law enforcement. We lead with a stick alone and are reactionary but our opinion at GraceUSA is that balancing the stick with the carrot equally will be part of the answer at least to the question of how can we stem the growing tide of crimes that this country has been dealing with for all of our history in the United States.