TIMELINE: A LOOK BACK THROUGH THE KAPPA ALPHA PSI ® JOURNAL
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It is a tragic and unfortunate fact of life that policemen tend to view any criticism of their behavior as an attack upon police officers and an attempt to undermine the ability of the police to do there job...The lessons learned from Nixon's investigations of his critics and Watergate ought to convince all of us, including the police officers who citizens believe have misbe- haved. The lessons learned from Nixon's investigations of his critics and Watergate ought to convince all of us, including the police officers, that investigating your critics is counterproductive and leads only to repression of freedom of speech.
Moreover, it is elementary that in a free and democratic society people must be free to criticize public officers if they are to maintain any degree of control over the police and maintain their right to oppose governmental officials who they believe are not acting in their best interest." Excerpts from "Can Policemen Be Objective in Scrutinizing Own Behavior," Robert L. Harris, Esq.," T he Kappa Alpha Psi Journal reprinted from Oakland Tribune, February 1980, Vol. LXVI, No. I.
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