Originally Posted by tom911
Oh, please. Quite a stretch to compare U.S. police agencies to Nuremberg, don't you think? Our policies are written and well spelled out. Everyone, from the lowest ranking clerk to the chief of police has a complete copy of them, and they're also on the intranet for easy access. If you don't follow them, you won't be working for us too long. If the agency in the article had a written policy that ALL arrestees, regardless of age, must be handcuffed, the arresting officer is mandated to comply with the policy under threat of disciplinary action for non-compliance. You just don't make your own rules along the way when you work in a police agency.
Tom, I take your handle and the use of the word
Our to mean you are in Law Enforcement. Would you handcuff a nine year old girl because she had scissors at school?
Fine; if procedures require handcuffing all arrestees (I guess that includes Martha Stewert too) then do so. But why did they arrest a 9 year old because she had scissors??? Did procedures require that too?
The rest of your post about procedures and 'ordnung' also applied at Nuremberg.