The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
January 30, 2020

 

Abstract

A visionary and a  constructively engaged perceptual struggle to maintain a proper balance between effective 2020 visionary post-conflict Liberia’s Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice and fairness under President George Weah’s Administration and beyond for individuals, pervades the entire criminal justice systems in Liberia. It is particularly crucial and apparent in police work globally because every police action can impinge directly, and perhaps hurtfully, on a citizen’s freedom of action. I am carefully apprehensive about the structural dynamics of the present security apparatus in Liberia. As a Blacologically astute Law Enforcement Criminal Justice practitioner, I am finding difficulties in critically analyzing and differentiating the post-conflict UNMIL trained Liberian National Police (LNP) for which I was a part of this 21st-century sophisticated training masters in 2015;  and to be in a present confused states of affairs in distinguishing   LNP from the community vigilante protective force with warlords rebel combative mentality. As I watched videos and physically observed the recent social performances and collective actions of the present Liberian National Police,  I become convicted with no alternatives but to once again put some of my multifaceted interdisciplinary expertise at the services of my people. This is an effort to help President George Weah in carrying the smooth affairs of our nation and people nothing else. Because I have what it takes to contribute to the amelioration of my people. 

Therefore, a 2020 visionary 21st century contemporary understanding of social change, with specific concentration of Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice in post-conflict Liberia PRO POOR Weah’s  Presidential Leadership and beyond;  will not be complete without constructively producing a 21st century understanding of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice. This is predicated upon and within the context of contemporary  Pro Poor Liberian Police Science in post-conflict Liberia towards 2020 decade visionary  Political Leadership and beyond. This is an effort to:  (1) undo the archaic and rebel oriented combative  Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice and police activities in post-conflict Liberia Pro Poor Political Leadership under President George Weah. (2) to introduce a 21st-century Homeland Security-911 Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Police Science in Post Conflict Liberia towards 2020 decades and beyond. (3), Finally, to inmate a contemporary transformational perspective of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and Police Science in post-conflict Liberia 2020 and beyond.

Introduction

The celebration of post-conflict Liberia’s peace and conflict management, 18 years into the 21st century, requires a critical thinking philosophy in 2020. That Liberia, specifically in a time of worldwide political, technological, and social change. With the fall of the Soviet Union 30  to 40 years or ago, we see especially in the Middle and Eastern Europe-more emerging democracies and more consciousness of Human Rights. As Africa emulates a democratization of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice and Police Science, and as such changes happen, the overwhelming anxiety and anticipatory vigilance for Africa specifically post-conflict Liberia, becomes to generate an increasing interest in the role of modernization of Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice and police science. Police, Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice as an institution in a democratic society, Post Conflict Liberia National Police must be in readiness always to participate in a democratization of a people’s police protection and safety and security. In the present Liberian political leadership, if the people will have to fight the police in protecting themselves, this implies that when the wrong is right and the right is wrong, the people must find justice from the outside. It must be intellectually, culturally, and academically argued that the concept of democratizing of policing in post-conflict Liberia must be a transitional Pro Poor Agenda of President George M. Weah. This is essential as a primary issue. Because after September 11, 2001 (9-11), the global changing ideology in the context Homeland Security; the re-engineering, re-configuring, restructuring, and re-evaluating the traditional concepts of Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice and Police performance has changed. So the Pro Poor 2020 decade political leadership must pay specific attention on these research questions below.  

The research questions are: 1.  Are post-conflict Liberia’s security agencies, (i.e.,) the Police and other Para-military agencies, the National Security apparatus a part of the global changing  Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Police Scientific dynamics? See  (Thomas Friedman (2005) argues that technology is a driving force behind globalization, while the other forces of social change (social institutions, population, environment) play comparatively minor roles. He suggests that we can view globalization as occurring in three distinct periods these are some of the reasons why in 2015  the author was asked by the Liberian National Police authorities and other Law Enforcement Agencies to teach their executive administrative officers the modern concepts of post 911 Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Police Science  and Homeland Security Dynamics. 2. Are these UNMIL trained LNP practitioners integrated in the Pro Poor CDC Government?

II. Facing the Challenge of a New Age in Post Conflict Liberian National Police Leadership with specific emphasis on Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision:
Understandingly, the anticipated goals of the above proposition must be based on contemporary democratization of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Police Transformational peoples oriented Leadership.  This orientation, therefore; must be predicated upon the post-conflict Liberian National Police (LNP) Pro Poor Agenda Vision and Mission implementation leadership. This is very significant because it promotes an ongoing contemporary Law Enforcement Criminal Justice, Police Science, and Homeland Security intellectual growth.
In the context of Democratization and People’s oriented Community Policing, as it reflects on Black African people, specifically Post Conflict Liberian people, this exercise must always be constructively and comprehensively intolerant of ignorance with specific concentration on Pro Poor Agenda Vision and Mission. However, this exercise must indeed be understandable of the profound effect on illiteracy. Empirically, some of our people, however, unable to go to school, sometimes the faults are not of their own making, were and are more intelligent than some of our Western and European college professors and Ph.D. practitioners. Relevantly, it is never too late or old to learn, and learning as a matter of fact, is not a new or young activity. These people, (i.e.), Pro Poor Agenda Driven oriented masses must not be left in a social construction of reality and or a social marginality.  Therefore, in post-conflict Pro Poor Agenda Vision and Mission-oriented ambitious march, and in our quest for advancement and knowledge of the contemporary Democratization of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice and Police enforcement; The Liberian National Police and National Security Agencies must integrate all strategic democratization efforts.

In a contemporary technological Law Enforcement Criminal Justice and highly concentrated era, The Pro Poor Agenda Oriented Mission and Vision Driven Liberian National Police(LNP) Leadership must be creative, innovative, with the power to manifest something new that will democratize the community and attract followers in generating a collective team-players mentality.  Because Creativity leads to positive change agents who always strive to make sense out of senseless situations of popular interest.

A contemporary intellectual and excellent grasp of language, with specific emphasis on Police Language, Law Enforcement Criminal Justice, is virtually essential for a democratization of Community Policing and leadership. As LNP Leadership, we must be able to communicate and easily articulate ideas and persuasively discuss concepts with other Law Enforcement Agencies. This is an effort to have a willingness and ultimate desire to and for a generously share helpful, uplifting information, ideas, and knowledge sharing. Communication is Key to constant connection and social networking.

C:  A Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision Oriented Driven CHARACTER:
This addresses the inner, spiritual beauty of a Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision Oriented Driven Liberian National Police leadership. In this context, Character refers to a person's, specifically a leader's, or the community sense of morality, and the moral and cultural values relevant to your belief systems, or what you relatively consider right or wrong against your people or your people against your pure sense of public service.

D: CONVICTION:
To have high ideas is a necessary qualitative condition for leadership, the Liberian National Police (LNP) Leadership must demonstrate conviction to contemporary and technical ideas, values, and social norms that develop personal integrity, support society, and uplift the community at large. This must be a post-conflict Liberian National Police pledge moving forward - 15 years into the 21st Century to 2017 and beyond.
E:  A Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision Oriented Driven COURAGE:

Failure in this dimension and is perspective is not a blow to a man's or a people’s ambitious march to his or their anticipated goal, but rather a test of his or their determination and optimism. This means being committed to high ideals. Even when outvoted by a mass of the streets gnats and anti-Law Enforcement and Security Agencies to ridicule your efforts, or even when they say, 'you failed us.' You must note that Failure is not a blow to man's or a people’s ambitious march to his or their anticipated goal, but rather a test of his or their determination and optimism. This is imperative because, in the context of Liberian National Police Leadership, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort or convenience, but where he stands in times of difficulty and controversies." (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) It must be critically elucidated in a simple synopsis of a guiding principle for a 21st Century post 911 and post-conflict LNP Respect Chart:
I. As a 21st Century post 911 and post-conflict LNP, and a Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision oriented, ours will be is to serve humanity the Liberian populace.
II. We will always conduct ourselves in a professional manner and maintain a professional surrounding and an enabling environment.
III. We will go beyond the normal to provide compassionate and family services to each other and our first customers (the people of Liberia and our partners in progress).
IV. We will treat each other and our customers with respect, dignity, our community, compassion, and a sense of oneness in humanity, land of nativity, and nationalism.
V. We are the ones to teach others that act on one term of a shared commitment - each one teaches one. One loss of life of LNP is one too many.

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VI. We will work together and share information and ideas through social networking and collective consciousness of Law Enforcement - Criminal Justice - with Police Science by undoing our miss-education of the past; and

VII. We will collectively remain open and consider all suggestions and ideas classified and de-classified that help our unified movement as LNP. Yet, we will remain vigilant and unambiguous of our alertness in an effort to avoid public panic and paranoia. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the mind, the spirit, the soul, the community, and the world if appropriately utilized. For knowledge is power and the only cause of fear is ignorance. "

In 2015, the author developed and presented the Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice-Police Science Curriculum to Cuttington University's Faculty Senate, Academic Standing Committee, and it was accepted and approved to be taught at the institution. This commenced on the main campus in Suakoko with BA degree. Also, an AA degree program anticipated at the Junior College in Kakata; with an anticipated projection at the Cuttington University Graduate School with MA/Ph.D. in Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice-Police Science. This positive mission and objectives rest on the shoulders of the Liberian authorities to utilize Liberians expertise to avoid foreign intervention and useless monitory expenditures to foreign nations when Liberians are sent there for semi-training…

Historically, the Liberia National Police was established in accordance with section 180 of chapter 13, subchapter "A" of the Executive Law in the Liberian Code of Law Volume 11 of 1955 within the Department of Justice and reversed under Section 22.70 of the same Executive Law of June 12, 1955.

Throughout the decades, the Liberian National Police has educated its practitioners with certifications and qualifications. Based upon this analysis, it becomes imperative to articulate that contemporary perspectives of policing be “Law in Action”., as opposed to “Black Letter” as printed. It is legal realism giving life to laws that are at once substance, procedural, and restorative, concerned with legality, but also with due process, and doing justice. In this way, policing in the context of the contemporary, and a 21st Century post-conflict and post-Ebola Liberian National Police, and Pro Poor Liberian 2020 Visionary Leadership gives life to human rights, Liberian rights to life, liberty, and the peruse of happiness. As Victor Hugo told us many decades ago that "There is nothing more powerful in the entire world than an idea whose time has come." As I   a follow up that "There is no vision that is greater than the fruition of a creative mind."

President of Tanzania Dr. Julius Nyerere articulated: "We are the custodians of the cultures of our ancestors, mothers, and fathers. We are the perpetrators of the cultures of our children.... we have no right to leave behind a culture that is less filtered than the ones our parents left to us." The Liberian National Police Leadership of post-conflict Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision Oriented, must be cognizant of the fact that freedom only takes a free people to give it up. For in order to produce the future, you have to create the future. Because by truth Liberia will rise in peace again; in love, Liberia will expand with dignity again; and with redemption, atonement, and reconciliation, Liberia, with Pro Poor Agenda Mission and Vision Oriented Driven will never fall again in the decade 2020 and beyond…
Professor/Dr. Amos M.D. Sirleaf (Ph.D.) – Blacology Research and Development Institute, USA Liberian Mission. Email: amdsirleaf@gmail.com,  Website: Blacology
2406401752 or 3012927111

About the Author: Amos M. D.  Sirleaf (Ph.D.) is Professor-Director-Law Enforcement-Criminal Justice-Police Science, Professor, Conflict Management and Peace Studies, Blacology Research and Development USA Liberian Mission
amdsirleaf@gmail.com  202-4309988 Website: Blacology.com

References: 

 See George M. Scott, Randall J. Jones, Jr. and Louis S. Furmanski:  Contemporary International Problems: World Politics, 2004.

See  Dr. Amos M.D.Sirleaf: Social Change and Democratization of Policing in Post Conflict Liberia 2008
See Howard Handelman; the Challenge of Third World Development, 2011 Custom Edition.

See Dr. Amos M.D.Sirleaf’s Understanding the Dynamics of Politics in Cultural Pluralism: An Experimental Perceptive of  Post Conflict Liberia’s 2017 predictions. Unpublished article 2006, Strayer University-USA.

See Margaret L. Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins: Race, Class, and Gender, an Anthology, 2010, USA.
See Thomas Sowell: Race and Culture, A World View, 1994.

Globalization as Govern mentality, Alternatives 29 (2004) pp. 495-514

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization, Globalization and the Environment, general assembly official Records, fifty-fourth session, Supplement No. 1 (a.54/1), chapter IV.

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