Comunicado IPA-SP n° 43/2023

     Srs. Associados, boa tarde:

Para conhecimento, análise e eventual manifestação, transcrevemos abaixo o texto em inglês, objeto de uma das aulas proferidas pelo curso mantido por esta IPA-SP, quando o Prof. Nilton Amorim debateu com os alunos um marcante relato de um juiz de Los Angeles (EUA) sobre o sacerdócio de ser policial. Segue a fala do juiz:    

EM INGLÊS:

     I know those of you in uniform, probably feel like you’ve already had to listen to me too much in your career for you. And for everyone else, I have both good news and bad news. The good news is they’ve only given me 10 minutes. The bad news is they’ve given me 10 minutes. I’ve been given the honor of joining all of you today, and I want to use those 10 minutes to make some points about the need filled by this spectacular facility. I was born in 1947.

     I was a boy in the 50s. John Murphy, my next door neighbor, and Godfather was an LAPD Sergeant, his equipment, consists of a 38 Special revolver, a billy, a flashlight, and a pair of handcuffs. The people who are trained here. Will be equipped with a 9-millimeter semi-auto, 14 Round sidearm. They will carry multiple magazines, double handcuffs, a tear gas canister, a baton a handheld radio, a taser, a flashlight, a voice-activated, audio recorder, a body camera, a tactical knife, and hidden backup pistol. In their trunk will be a shotgun, a patrol rifle, and a patrol bag full of report forms, first aid kits.

     And it dozens of other items, John Murphy, never imagined They will be expected to know how and when to use all of those things. Sergeant Murphy had been trained to drive and to shoot. He had not learned artificial respiration, he knew nothing about CPR or the use of a defibrillator.

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São Paulo, 27 de março de 2023

Jarim Lopes Roseira – Presidente da IPA-SP

Nilton Amorim Durval da Silva – Professor de Inglês da IPA-SP