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Posted by: Telec
Remember kids: when Uncle Delta tells you he has sweeties, he isn't lying.
Now get in the van.
The Black Chapter
Posted by: Sgt Drifter
Posted by: deltahalo UK
lol no it isn't.
A Police Officer keeps the peace and enforces the law. Individual discipline is not within their realms of responsibility. They can act if a lack of discipline is preventing their legal duty, but they have no right to teach discipline
Enforcing Laws is nearly the same thing as discipline.
Props to him for doing what the lad's failures of parents could not.
That refers to, as Plato puts it, the 'social contract' between citizen and state. The Police are merely the enforcers of that, and only when it relates to the breach of that contract. A child refusing to empty his pockets can fall into that, and they have the authority to use force to enforce their authority in that respect, true. When, however, related to anything else, such as teaching discipline - no. All they do is react when shown indiscipline, when that indiscipline relates directly to their authority.
They are reactionary, and have no rights beyond those allocated. Teaching a child a lesson is not one of those rights. You could probably argue that it violates parental sovereignty too.
[Edited on 11.26.2012 1:47 PM PST]