National Justice Systems Learning From One Another Tho Far From “International Standards”
Try searching for the “international standards” for DNA testing that Hellmann/Zanetti and Marasca/Bruno claimed Italian police labs dont follow.
In fact, not only are there no international standards or even Europe-wide standards, there are not even any central mechanisms for crime-fighting research and training and standard-setting.
Hellmann/Zanetti and Marasca/Bruno were irresponsibly myth-propagating - all suckered by a pair of dishonest DNA consultants on the defense payroll.
This absence of mechanisms contrasts sharply with all the other segments of national infrastructures, for which the UN agencies run conferences and team efforts for hundreds of nations to learn from. (In them the US and UK and Italy are big players.)
One reason we give the Italian justice system so much attention is that Italy has one of the lowest crime rates and incarceration rates among high-income countries.
There is very much to be learned bilaterally from it. Part of its core model is that it has a large and glamorous and much-liked police presence - Italian police are possibly the world’s most popular.
In contrast, stories of bad policing are pouring out daily in the US.
Most in the US news for bad policing is CHICAGO right in Bruce Fischer’s backyard, where he abysmally failed to comprehend that there was an epidemic of police shootings while he foolishly gunned for Italy. Numbers dead from police guns there are up in the hundreds, and there is to be a Federal investigation.
Meanwhile the effectiveness or even comprehension of Fischer’s pretentious “network” has been at zero (perhaps one reason why the Knoxes disinvited Fischer from Knox’s talk at a Chicago law school - also he had been panhandling them). Why do we doubt the Feds will consult him?
In the news right now in the US is an attempt by jurisdictions to learn from the highly effective Scottish police practices.
Scotland has an extremely low rate of police shootings, and the few police who do carry guns are trained to handle fraught situations to an extent most American police see only a fraction of. See the video.
Here is a Daily Telegraph story, and here is a New York Times story:
Forty minutes into a Scottish police commander’s lecture on the art of firearm-free policing, American law enforcement leaders took turns talking. One after another, their questions sounded like collective head-scratching.
“Do you have a large percentage of officers that get hurt with this policing model?” asked Theresa Shortell, an assistant chief of the New York Police Department and the commanding officer of its training academy, where several hundred officers graduate each year.
“How many officers in Scotland have been killed in the last year or two years?” Chief Shortell added.
Bernard Higgins, an assistant chief constable who is Scotland’s use-of-force expert, stood and answered. Yes, his officers routinely take punches, he said, but the last time one was killed on duty through criminal violence was 1994, in a stabbing.
There is poverty, crime and a “pathological hatred of officers wearing our uniform” in pockets of Scotland, he said, but constables live where they work and embrace their role as “guardians of the community,” not warriors from a policing subculture.
“The basic fundamental principle, even in the areas where there’s high levels of crime, high levels of social deprivation, is it’s community-based policing by unarmed officers,” Constable Higgins said. “We police from an absolute position of embracing democracy.”
That model is pretty close to the Italian one.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 12/23/15 at 05:50 PM in The judical timeline
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Pete,
“Hellmann/Zanetti and Marasca/Bruno were irresponsibly myth-propagating - all suckered by a pair of dishonest DNA consultants on the defense payroll.”
Hits a nail on the head.
So does your comparison of Scottish and Italian Police Principles.
It’s my understanding, from a relative in the London Metropolitan Police Force, that the basic purpose of UK Police is:
Prevent Crime.
That of US Police is:
Catch Criminals.
QED?
Posted by Cardiol MD on 12/24/15 at 06:50 PM | #
Merry Christmas everybody.
Posted by Hopeful on 12/25/15 at 02:37 AM | #
I came across a good thought which I felt I could share with everyone….it’s ‘international’, in a way!
It is of Celtic, pre-Christian origin:
” The Impress of Good and Evil:
Every thought leaves an impress upon the Spirit of the Shadow self for good or evil. With every impress of evil, there is further corruption and distortion of the Spirit Form.
With every impress of good, there is a strengthening force, which beautifies the Spirit Form, and so it resides within in joy and content.”
Christmas Day 2015.
Every best wish winging along to the Kercher family today.
Posted by SeekingUnderstanding on 12/25/15 at 02:28 PM | #
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