Attitude Is Everything, Especially In Policing and Security
Have you ever noticed that older police officers are often mellow when doing their duty, they do not come off as cocky, power hungry, or aggressive.
Do you know why? They realize that it's much easier to do their job without all the psychological games, puffed up chests, or projected toughness.
Experience teaches the older officers this, but one should be asking; why aren't they teaching these officers this at their academy? Let's talk.
It's not just with policing, it also occurs with airport security, the TSA for instance.
How about an example, this one is quite tragic and I'd say probably preventable as well.
In the Seattle Post Intelliger there was an interesting article on November 2, 2013 titled; Gunman with evident hate for TSA opens fire at LAX, by Tami Abdollah and Justin Pritchard of the Associated Press.
The article stated; "A man toting a semi-automatic rifle, some 150 rounds of ammunition and a grudge against "pigs" and TSA agents shot his way past a security checkpoint at LAX in a deadly rampage that sent hundreds of travelers fleeing in terror.
When the shooting stopped, a TSA officer was dead, the first TSA officer in the agency's 12-year history to be killed in the line of duty.
" The gunman "Hated" the TSA, the article says, but really who doesn't have at least a slight disdain for the TSA, let's be honest here.
They are often rude, waste our time, use strip-scanners, and then we have people stealing our stuff so we are afraid to check our bags.
They often make our traveling a living hell, all the while we are told that they are protecting us - well, I am sorry, but there is probably more to this story.
The shooter was NO Threat to the flying public, airlines, and he was not a terrorist, he was only a threat to the TSA and uniformed officers - and why he was so crazy about it to go shoot officers must have been due to a previous encounter, he wanted revenge, and he took it out on the first TSA officer he found, that's a tragedy, but we can learn from this and use better communication skills and fix the TSA - we don't need more electronic devices, attitudes, or security - the security put everyone in jeopardy today + a mentally upset person = a very bad situation.
What can we do to prevent these things? What can we do to stop these events? How can we better train our TSA, how can we recruit only the best? Remember they are here to protect us, not themselves.
But at the same time they shouldn't be antagonizing people unnecessarily.
Please consider all this and think on it.
Do you know why? They realize that it's much easier to do their job without all the psychological games, puffed up chests, or projected toughness.
Experience teaches the older officers this, but one should be asking; why aren't they teaching these officers this at their academy? Let's talk.
It's not just with policing, it also occurs with airport security, the TSA for instance.
How about an example, this one is quite tragic and I'd say probably preventable as well.
In the Seattle Post Intelliger there was an interesting article on November 2, 2013 titled; Gunman with evident hate for TSA opens fire at LAX, by Tami Abdollah and Justin Pritchard of the Associated Press.
The article stated; "A man toting a semi-automatic rifle, some 150 rounds of ammunition and a grudge against "pigs" and TSA agents shot his way past a security checkpoint at LAX in a deadly rampage that sent hundreds of travelers fleeing in terror.
When the shooting stopped, a TSA officer was dead, the first TSA officer in the agency's 12-year history to be killed in the line of duty.
" The gunman "Hated" the TSA, the article says, but really who doesn't have at least a slight disdain for the TSA, let's be honest here.
They are often rude, waste our time, use strip-scanners, and then we have people stealing our stuff so we are afraid to check our bags.
They often make our traveling a living hell, all the while we are told that they are protecting us - well, I am sorry, but there is probably more to this story.
The shooter was NO Threat to the flying public, airlines, and he was not a terrorist, he was only a threat to the TSA and uniformed officers - and why he was so crazy about it to go shoot officers must have been due to a previous encounter, he wanted revenge, and he took it out on the first TSA officer he found, that's a tragedy, but we can learn from this and use better communication skills and fix the TSA - we don't need more electronic devices, attitudes, or security - the security put everyone in jeopardy today + a mentally upset person = a very bad situation.
What can we do to prevent these things? What can we do to stop these events? How can we better train our TSA, how can we recruit only the best? Remember they are here to protect us, not themselves.
But at the same time they shouldn't be antagonizing people unnecessarily.
Please consider all this and think on it.
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