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An Answermug pal asks a GREAT question! "Who will police the policemen"? Which makes me wonder who polices the police of the policemen?

How many levels of auditing/tracking/checking/overseeing must we endure to INSURE that justice is done? Any idea? Make it an even ten? Is 20 levels even better? Checking the checker who checks the checker who checks the checker forever and ever? Even then every level could be corrupt. How would we ever find that out? Is it hopeless?

Posted - April 2, 2019
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  • 6023
    The original (Latin) phrase is: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?"

    In Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? by Dr. Seuss, the entire town of Hawtch-Hawtch is employed as watchers watching over other watchers leading to the first watcher who is watching the "lazy town bee" so it will work harder. Since the bee wasn't working harder, it was assumed the bee-watcher wasn't watching hard enough and needed to be watched.

      April 2, 2019 7:15 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    My familiarity with Dr. Seuss begins and ends with GREEN EGGS AND HAM. That other one to which you refer sounds great. So then if the watched doesn't perform well it is the fault of the watcher? So the watcher got a watcher who was watching another watcher? Was being a watcher a family legacy? Were empires created by being watchers? Where does it end? What happens when a watcher watches and sees something wrong? Does the watcher report it or fix it? I like that question. I'm gonna ask. Thank you for your reply Walt!
      April 2, 2019 7:21 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    The towns and agencies which employ them are responsible for them. 
      April 2, 2019 7:16 AM MDT
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  • Ideally that should part of the prosecution offices job to keep police officers inline and on the ball.  Yet when you have a system that rewards solely on convictions and not truth or good .convictions and good dismissals,  the police become the pit bulls of the prosecution office. Two things news to change. 
    1;   Prosecutors shouldn't be grades on convictions,they should be rewarded for proper cases.  That means rewarding them for dismissals and dropped charges as well as well as convicting.  A 100% conviction rate is not a good thing and shows they aren't doing the job correctly. No way are 100% of your cases guilty.  Nope.

    2; Internal affairs.  It is insane to.let police departments conduct their investigations on complaints against their own. Internal affairs needs to be down away with and a separate agency with no ties to the police in any way should be demanded and created to investigate police misconduct .  Not their fellow brothers and sisters who have an interest in keeping the agencies name clean the best they can and are under the same bosses.
      April 2, 2019 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 469
    I wonder that myself.  It's kinda like "Too many cooks spoil the soup."  I suppose if you can't trust one person,  then you can't trust anyone. 
      April 2, 2019 7:33 AM MDT
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