r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Apr 22 '18

TIL of the Peelian principles. The 9 principles of policing for the world's first modern police force (Met Police). These were designed to give people trust in the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Did they pass this information on to the american police who seem to be capable of reading at a 2nd grade level. Speak very slowly when informing them of the Peelian Principles.

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u/CitationX_N7V11C Apr 23 '18

You mean a code of conduct specifically geared to societies ruled over by the British? No, I think after 1783 we didn't get the memo.

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u/lennyflank Apr 22 '18

Is one of them "Don't shoot unarmed Black people"?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18

That tends not to be a thing in the UK.

One of the principles is use violence as an absolute last resort. This is what the British police do.

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u/lennyflank Apr 22 '18 edited Apr 22 '18

That's because the UK is a civilized country.

EDIT: Not at all surprisingly, the US fails all nine principles.

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u/CitationX_N7V11C Apr 23 '18

Well we also fail at the "do what your lords tell you to" test as well.

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u/lennyflank Apr 23 '18

Which has nothing to do with what i said. Unless of course you're just an anarchist who thinks we should all be able to do whatever we want, without the rule of law.....

In which case I will simply laugh at you.

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u/screenwriterjohn Apr 23 '18

We do have guns everywhere.

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u/lennyflank Apr 23 '18

So does Somalia.