Comments: 'Who will police criminal cops?'

Dec. 26, p. 8
 
Disciplinary action against police officers involved in abuse of power and other crimes often falls far short of the general public’s sense of justice. Unlike civilians, who have to undergo long legal processes in courts, many police officers merely face internal disciplinary hearings.

And the light punishment frequently imposed on such “criminal police officers” obviously does not have a deterrent effect.

As a result, we civilians often become victims of police officers who are easily committed to violence or abusing their power in the course of duty.


Your comments:

It’s all too saddening and regrettable to have law enforcers acting lawlessly and at the same time they are virtually beyond the binding force of the law itself. It’s commonly held opinion that our cops are notorious for their nondisciplinary even crooked attitudes.

Concerning the idea of building an independent institution to investigate any wrongdoings committed by police officers, I highly doubt that such resolution will be workable and effective to combat their horrendous crookedness.

This is reasonable since our law is very susceptible to easy compromise.

Moreover, our history has testified to the fact that institution is useless unless we have a robust commitment to materialize betterment in our society.

It seems that institution without such longstanding commitment will lead us nowhere. In any case, let’s hope for the best...who knows that history will tell us another different story.

Jegger
Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara