Kids today seem to think they own the world and can get away with murder. When I see a 12 year old calling a police officer a pig I get very sad for the future this world holds for us...
2006-08-23 04:22:03 · 16 answers · asked by n.hyatt 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Thanks guys all these are great answers!
2006-08-23 17:03:44 · update #1
Very simply, it's because of their absentee parents. I see it all the time. When their kid gets in trouble (with the police, at school, wherever), they lash out at the accuser. Part of it is the parents want to make up for their lack of being with the kid, so they take his/her side no matter what. That way, their kid isn't mad at them.
Second, kids' actions are a direct, public reflection of how they are being raised. Absentee parents are very sensitive about their kids messing up because they feel it exposes their lack of parenting.
I once had a kid confess to a hit and run he did. There were only two kids (with entirely different ethnicities) in the car and a witness, who knew both kids, saw it happen. Even though his kid confessed, the parent called me to complain that I forced a confession from the kid. He then wrote a letter to the chief of police, the city council, and the DA. He swore to his kid's innocence and berated me for "poor police work". A few months later, the kid plead guilty to the hit in run without so much as a fuss or me appearing in court. No letter of apology written to me about his earlier comments, however.
Bottom line is the kids won't have any respect for anyone when the parents don't show it.
2006-08-23 05:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by gunsandammoatwork 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need police in our schools.
Respect is earned. Police should serve and protect the community. The best way to serve and protect the community is to win over young people by teaching them morals and values.
Anyone who punishes a child should have some idea of that child's personality and background. Some children are taught to view police as the enemy, by parents or police.
One bad experience can lead to a lifetime crime, but a good friendship can lead to a lifetime of possibilities even for children who have seen their parents abused
Dealing with only criminals over time can turn police into criminals causing a cycle of violence and distrust. Police should not spend all their time with criminals. Human beings have a fundamental need to feel like they are making a difference. Often police end up taking the same people back to jail for the same things over and over without any real success.
Police and children need to be on the same side. Let parents and teachers punish children. Let the courts punish adults. Punishment is not in an officers job description they resort to punishment only when failure frustration gets the better of them.
2006-08-23 05:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by marytormeye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I approached a very rude kid in this building recently and asked him the same question... he knew enough to say, "Cause the laws protect me and I don't gotta do nothing I don't wanna do..." The kid is failing miserably in school. He even called the police on his mother when she yelled at him for coming home almost at midnight during the middle of the week... he's only 10 years old! He said that he could say whatever the f... he wanted to and I couldn't touch him. So, I asked him, would you speak like that to my grandson or speak to me like that if my grandson was here right now? He quickly said, "Hell no! He'd kick my butt!"
A woman thought that I had done something, and she came to me cursing and yelling all sorts of obscenities. The superintendent quickly told her that I was at work and I could not have done what she was accusing me of. She came up to my face and challenged me to hit so she could call the police and she even pushed me! (I'm a former athlete in two combative sports and in Gymnastics) I told her, "If I were a woman, you wouldn't do that because you KNOW I'd stick my size 10 shoe up yo a**!" By this time, the superintendent's wife came out and witnessed the whole thing. Afterward, her oldest daughter told me that her mother had just discovered that the person who did what she was accusing me of was her own husband!
I think that answers your question!
2006-08-23 05:18:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parents do not respect their children. Children see parents not respecting authority. Therefore, Children do not respect any authority.
Children have rights - Their best interests always take over. If a 12 year old wants to hang out on a corner and sell drugs, no one would bat an eye. The Juvenile system would send him home to an emotionally hostile mother or relative. The cycle continues....
2006-08-23 04:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Police offers do not warrant my respect either. Not because I have had any direct negative experience with one or all but because they are the government's pawns. They are paid to enforce "laws" that are sometimes unjust and out right ridiculous. I feel that no one should be given that power. I would prefer the utilization of the "officers" only when two parties are at ends with each other and a neutral person is needed to settle the dispute. That in short is why I do not respect them or should I say their occupation.
2006-08-23 04:32:56 · answer #5 · answered by anthonym_1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Besides the parents lacking any control. Its also the media. They show whenever a police officer allegedly goes over board.
So the kids are led to believe that cops are mean and will beat you up for no reason.
2006-08-23 04:32:52 · answer #6 · answered by Whiskeytangofoxtrot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Respect is taught at home and many parents today depend on it being taught at school. So children don't have respect for police officers or elders or anyone as they did years ago. It's sad.
2006-08-23 04:23:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it start at home...kids do not respect their parents, and the care giver is the first law officers in their life, in so many. I am a father of 5,,,,two girl (7yrs old twin) and 3 boys (1yr old and newborn twins.) i was told that a child is like an arrow and the father ( or mother) is the bow. It is up to us to be strong enough to shoot them in the right direction in life. So if they don't respect me they well not respect you.
2006-08-23 04:34:08 · answer #8 · answered by Dark Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not think a lot of the kids being raised today have much respect for anything or anybody...i think they have learned that parents can not punish them and so they do not listen to anybody...i think this world is in fast decay.....there is sure something wrong with our world today....in several areas, law enforcement, courts, families, schools, etc....
2006-08-23 04:25:09 · answer #9 · answered by sanangel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is all about respect, the children are not being taught by their parents very well. Especially when they see their parents acting poorly! The old "do as I say not as I do" holds true!
2006-08-23 04:26:02 · answer #10 · answered by True Blue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋