"Should Police Be Non-political?"

Mid-September of this year an article published in the Vancouver Courier discussed how politically active police should be.

In the last decade tools such as police boards have been established to limit corruption. However, our more recent conservative government aims to "blur the thin blue line" between police freedom of political thought and society's right to have a politically-neutral police force. That is the question-should police be forced to adopt the political ideals of our federal, provincial or even municipal governments?

From my point of view, there needs to be some consistency between government authority and police authority, but only on a very general level. In other words, our police as citizens have the right to freedom of political thought, but must never let their owns ideals hinder moral and ethical judgement.