As we had discussed in class early October, the Texas Senator wants Teens to Learn What to do During Police Stops.Texas State legislators are exploring having Texas schools teach students how to act when stopped by law enforcement, joined by the Department of Public Safety who are looking into new language but in its guidelines to help drivers when they are pulled over by Law enforcement. These changes are in an effort to change the unfortunate high profile fatal encounters between police and civilians, mainly among unarmed black men and women in the past years. Texas should teach young drivers to be better informed of their Rights and the Law to avoid unwanted and unfortunate accidents like the Sandra Bland case, which because of misinformation of Rights and Power, ended in a tragedy.
Recently, the County where Sandra Bland died, is looking into electing their first African American Sheriff in the hopes to put it back after being in the national spotlight, but I feel this is not the way it should be. I feel that if Texans, both civilians and our Officers were better informed, tragedies or remedies out of convenience would not have to occur. Civilians abuse their knowledge of thinking they know their rights and the Law, and Law Enforcement Officials do abuse their power, but if Texas does go through with teaching teens what to do during police stops, it could be one step into a better Texas.
Texas should not only teach teens what to do during Police stops, it should also teach its Officers. The information should be for both parties, because todays society is not as it was a couple years back. Most young adults have changed in a dramatic way, where they have no respect for their elders but most of all for the Law. I feel that this is something Texas should remind its officers, most teens today are a bunch of wanna be thugs who think they know it all, and this infuriates many Officers. But Texas and maybe as well as all the other States should teach their Officers to NOT be bugged by it, because that is the start of the abuse of Power, by the Police Officers.
"Comply then Complain", great words that every Texas civilian should know. Because the middle of the freeway is not the place to complain of a speeding ticket. Texas should ENFORCE that officers cannot sit there with the civilian and talk over the matter, they should just hand the ticket and drive away and make it as clear as they can to the civilian that they can complain in court. For this statement, and the reasons stated above as well as many others I feel that Texas should go through with teaching young drivers handout their Rights and what they are required to do when stopped by Law Enforcement.
I enjoyed your post. Great job. I agree that we should teach both students and officers what to do doing stops. I think people think it's common knowledge but without experience, you may not know how to act. I agree that as people change there needs to be updates in methods to understand the people of today.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree that young drivers, or simply drivers in general, and officers of the law should correspond in a better way than what has recently going on. As to implementing a program to place that into effect I believe is a great idea. Teen drivers should know how to act as their rights whe stopped by police officers to prevent any form of violence from taking place.
Pros to this would include safer interaction between police and young civilians, proper knowledge of your rights, and teens being comfortable with police officers.
Cons/reasons to question the implementation would include how lon would it take to place the class in schools, who would teach the classes, would the classes be mandatory, would they work toward credit for the students. Who would also vote towards whether or not to pass the idea of the class? Would the school budget permit it?
The idea itself is great but just how much work is it going to take and are there people out there willing to put in that work to make the class come about.