Why men do evil (while wearing a badge)

Prepper Podcast – by James Smith

“Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile’s Honor  

Sometimes in this crazy world we get lost in the noise and bustle of everyday life. We hear stories that cause us fear and concern. We know a friend-of-a-friend that has a second cousin that…

But stories are just a part of a person’s life. Each of us have a story. A snippet of our life that we hold onto and pass along. Many stories are cute and endearing, and then there are those at the other end of the spectrum.

These stories are of fear and pain.

These are stories of abuse by police.

These stories are becoming more frequent. Entire website networks have sprung up to alert readers and web searches of the abuse caused by police officers.

Photographing the crimes by police, although protected by Supreme Courts in many states, still results in harassment by law enforcement. When the general public states their concern about surveillance cameras all over their town, the police may respond with “If you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s wrong with being recorded”. The hypocrisy sits in their mouths like venom when they are recorded abusing a pedestrian or a driver because, “They gave me attitude”.

It has been a long held tradition – from the time of Hammurabi of the Sumerians – the duty of the strong is to protect the weak.

“…that the strong may not oppress the weak, that justice may be dealt the orphan and the widow.”  – source

The job of Pharaoh was to protect the weak from the powerful. Even the knights of old Europe were charged with protecting the weak as well as the Faith from brigands and heretics.

As Rev. Clifford Stevens puts it:

“Wherever constitutional law has emerged, it was in the form of laws to protect weak and helpless members of society from those who would use their power, privilege or position to oppress and exploit. Law itself can be described as protection for the weak and helpless, since the strong and prosperous have their own means of protection.

Law enforcement is for professionals. You must be trained and licensed, and later swear an an oath protecting the Constitution. It involves long hours in the worst kind of weather. Behaving like a spoiled child because someone called you a name is not professional. And yet so many bad cops are allowed to get away with literal murder.

Why? What makes a person who swore an oath, to protect the general public, to taser unarmed women. Or beat senseless with night sticks?

To answer that question we need to go back to 1971, to Stanford University for the Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20 of 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, and was funded by the US Office of Naval Research as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners.

In the experiment, the guards and prisoners were chosen by a coin toss. And then began a two week experiment that was doomed even before it started and ended six days later. As the head researcher, Philip Zombardo stated:

 Guard aggression … was emitted simply as a ‘natural’ consequence of being in the uniform of a ‘guard’ and asserting the power inherent in that role.

Furthermore, because the Guards could not help themselves, they could not be blamed for their actions.

Stop reading now if you are troubled by senseless violence.  The following are excerpts of the Experiment:

Enforcing Law:

The guards were given no specific training on how to be guards. Instead they were free, within limits, to do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of the prisoners. The guards made up their own set of rules, which they then carried into effect under the supervision of Warden David Jaffe, an undergraduate from Stanford University. They were warned, however, of the potential seriousness of their mission and of the possible dangers in the situation they were about to enter, as, of course, are real guards who voluntarily take such a dangerous job.

As with real prisoners, our prisoners expected some harassment, to have their privacy and some of their other civil rights violated while they were in prison, and to get a minimally adequate diet — all part of their informed consent agreement when they volunteered.

This is what one of our guards looked like. All guards were dressed in identical uniforms of khaki, and they carried a whistle around their neck and a billy club borrowed from the police. Guards also wore special sun-glasses, an idea I borrowed from the movie “Cool Hand Luke.” Mirror sunglasses prevented anyone from seeing their eyes or reading their emotions, and thus helped to further promote their anonymity. We were, of course, studying not only the prisoners but also the guards, who found themselves in a new power-laden role.

Asserting Authority:

Push-ups were a common form of physical punishment imposed by the guards to punish infractions of the rules or displays of improper attitudes toward the guards or institution. When we saw the guards demand push-ups from the prisoners, we initially thought this was an inappropriate kind of punishment for a prison — a rather juvenile and minimal form of punishment. However, we later learned that push-ups were often used as a form of punishment in Nazi concentration camps, as can be seen in this drawing by a former concentration camp inmate, Alfred Kantor. It’s noteworthy that one of our guards also stepped on the prisoners’ backs while they did push-ups, or made other prisoners sit or step on the backs of fellow prisoners doing their push-ups.

Special Privileges:

Every aspect of the prisoners’ behavior fell under the total and arbitrary control of the guards. Even going to the toilet became a privilege which a guard could grant or deny at his whim. Indeed, after the nightly 10:00 P.M. lights out “lock-up,” prisoners were often forced to urinate or defecate in a bucket that was left in their cell. On occasion the guards would not allow prisoners to empty these buckets, and soon the prison began to smell of urine and feces — further adding to the degrading quality of the environment.

Types of Guards

There were three types of guards. First, there were tough but fair guards who followed prison rules. Second, there were “good guys” who did little favors for the prisoners and never punished them. And finally, about a third of the guards were hostile, arbitrary, and inventive in their forms of prisoner humiliation. These guards appeared to thoroughly enjoy the power they wielded, yet none of our preliminary personality tests were able to predict this behavior. The only link between personality and prison behavior was a finding that prisoners with a high degree of authoritarianism endured our authoritarian prison environment longer than did other prisoners.

Prisoners’ Coping Styles

Prisoners coped with their feelings of frustration and powerlessness in a variety of ways. At first, some prisoners rebelled or fought with the guards. Four prisoners reacted by breaking down emotionally as a way to escape the situation. One prisoner developed a psychosomatic rash over his entire body when he learned that his parole request had been turned down. Others tried to cope by being good prisoners, doing everything the guards wanted them to do. One of them was even nicknamed “Sarge,” because he was so military-like in executing all commands.

By the end of the study, the prisoners were disintegrated, both as a group and as individuals. There was no longer any group unity; just a bunch of isolated individuals hanging on, much like prisoners of war or hospitalized mental patients. The guards had won total control of the prison, and they commanded the blind obedience of each prisoner.

An End to the Experiment

At this point it became clear that we had to end the study. We had created an overwhelmingly powerful situation — a situation in which prisoners were withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways, and in which some of the guards were behaving sadistically. Even the “good” guards felt helpless to intervene, and none of the guards quit while the study was in progress. Indeed, it should be noted that no guard ever came late for his shift, called in sick, left early, or demanded extra pay for overtime work.

I ended the study prematurely for two reasons. First, we had learned through videotapes that the guards were escalating their abuse of prisoners in the middle of the night when they thought no researchers were watching and the experiment was “off.” Their boredom had driven them to ever more pornographic and degrading abuse of the prisoners.

Second, Christina Maslach, a recent Stanford Ph.D. brought in to conduct interviews with the guards and prisoners, strongly objected when she saw our prisoners being marched on a toilet run, bags over their heads, legs chained together, hands on each other’s shoulders. Filled with outrage, she said, “It’s terrible what you are doing to these boys!” Out of 50 or more outsiders who had seen our prison, she was the only one who ever questioned its morality. Once she countered the power of the situation, however, it became clear that the study should be ended.

And so, after only six days, our planned two-week prison simulation was called off.

In 2002, the British Broadcasting Corporation conducted their own nine-day experiment. Again, using volunteers, the results were the same.

However, one aspect that was considered was that of tyrannical rule by the guards. In the conclusion of the study, the researchers state:

Our study suggests that this happens when groups fail. When people cannot realize their own values and beliefs, they are more like to accept alternatives – however drastic – that provide the prospect of success. In particular, when their group is failing, they are more likely to embrace a strong figure who promises to make things work for them. It is this combination of failure and promise which made our participants become more authoritarian. In history too, these are conditions that have precipitated tyranny.

So there are two variable within this study that were simply omitted:

  1. Is the nature of man such that when given power will abuse the weaker if there are no consequences?
  2. Why won’t a moral man take a stand when faced with evil?

In the latter question, those “good men” that do nothing while evil is stomping on handcuffed woman, are as guilty as the brutal officer. In the case of Jones v City of Hartford (2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17340 (Dist. CT. 2003)) the court asserted that:

“Police officers have an affirmative duty to intercede on behalf of a citizen whose constitutional rights are being violated in their presence by other officers.”

Officers who fail to intervene may be liable for the harm caused by their fellow officers. And then there is the penalty, if any.

Some Municipalities simple allow the reports and claims to languish in limbo for years. One city actually failed to investigate a single police brutality report until the threat of a Federal Civil Rights court case blossomed.

According to Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Law (1963), a financial penalty may be assesed to the vicitms of the assaults:

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance,regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges,or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

What does this mean in layman’s terms: The taxpayer has to pay for a rogue cop. In fact, Officer George Fort of the Portland (OR) Police Bureau has an laundry list of abuse allegations, claims, and payouts:

Fort was sued repeatedly for alleged abuse.15 The city paid one plaintiff $500,000 in 1998 after Fort allegedly broke her arm in 1989; the civil jury found that he had falsely arrested the woman.16 Fort’s behavior should have triggered a command review, and may have in 1990, but there is no record of what happened, if anything. Jensen commented, “We haven’t been documenting the reviews as well as we could.”17 During the deposition for one of his civil cases, Fort was asked if the police department had ever given him attention, training, or psychological assistance after complaints and he said they had not.18 Fort chose to retire in August 1996.19  – Source

And therein lies the third variable that the Stanford Prison Experiment did not consider: Institutionalized acceptance of the behavior.

When we receive positive feedback from a supervisor, we all tend to repeat the same action or deed to get the same response. It’s human nature. But when the acceptance has potentially lethal consequences or fiscally irresponsible, that is not human nature, it’s criminal nature.

What is the solution? According the BBC Prison study, we are.

The answer to tyranny is not to distrust or to fear power. It was this that created problems for the Guards’ regime and for the Commune. Rather, the answer is to use group power responsibly, democratically and in defence of humane values. In this way, we can act together to resist tyranny – either one imposed by others or one made by ourselves.  – Ibid

Working together in lawful purpose can achieve the results we want. Not slaves, but officers who understand that not every person giving them a ration of attitude needs to receive a broken arm. Perhaps they should remember what Ian Maclaren (pseudonym of Rev. John Watson once said; “Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.”

Click here for a Police Abuse Action Manual.

The following are taken from the List of cases of Police Brutality on Wikipedia. This is by no means exhaustive.

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7 thoughts on “Why men do evil (while wearing a badge)

  1. The jack-booted thugs that went from door to door in Watertown, looking for the designated patsy, for the most part, were welcomed with open arms, even though they didn’t have search warrants, just machine guns and assault rifles they pointed in the direction of the house they wanted to search.

    And if you read or see the citizens talking about that freedom smashing move, you’ll see that most welcomed with open arms the tyranny that goose-stepped into their homes.

    Since that operation was so successful, look for it to be enlarged after the next FF.
    Maybe they’ll even declare martial law and play with that toy to see what happens to the sheeple.

    That’s when they’ll confiscate self-defense weapons and most–hopefully only some–will gladly turn in those freedom protectors, since that will get them a piece of paper that says they can move about in their city and also go to the grocery store to buy food.

  2. One thing those studies all seem to be missing is the psychopath factor.

    When research has shown that 5% of the population are psychopaths, and that psychopaths can have a negative influence on about 17% of the population, that makes about 22% of the population that can commit acts like this.

    1. There is nothing wrong with correction,however that isn’t what you did. had you ever considered working as a prison guard,I mean the attitude seems about right.

      1. Excellent response! So many people just love to pounce on another’s mistake as if they’re free of fault. Humans are one of the most vile animals on the planet. The only animal that seems to have not a care in the least about it’s fellow human beings. Just as long as those humans are able to be labeled and declared as something “outside” of the bullying groups species. We’re disgusting really. Not much left in the fabric of civilization that is really worth exerting one’s self to champion and protect except your ownl sovereignty while perusing a prosperous and uplifting existence. To me, those are worth my very life.

  3. This story lacks only one fact. Those who wish to control the populations, those who are stealing our rights, liberties, and lives, are ALL connected. 95% of the Police/Sheriff’s in EVERY town across America are now Masons. Your Judges are Masons. Same with the Lawyers, Senators, Congressmen/women, hell, even Obama is a Prince Hall Mason.
    This is why we are seeing the Cops beating people to death, Judges who refuse to do the right thing, and elected officials who stomp all over the Constitution (unless it suits their agenda). Each of these groups has their “role” to play in the destruction of America, and each of these groups ARE Masons.

  4. Great and valuable article, plus great comments by Greg, Ken, Gary and Michael. All police must be viewed as enemies due to the license to kill that goes with the badge. We must all be armed but no one must be given that license to kill. Until this cowardly practice is ended, be prepared to fight at the drop of a hat with federal, state and local police. There is no legal, procedural or safe way to deal with this dangerous fact of life, which is agents of government who are allowed to kill us. Anyone who would accept such a license is our deadly enemy.

    http://www.jbcampbellextremismonline.com/sep-2011—mar-2012.html

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