Survey

Spouse's Anonymous Survey: (v 6.15)
Read the following scenario and then answer the ten-item survey (you may do the survey whether or not you do the tutorial).

Scenario:

Your spouse is offered the opportunity to start his/her own experimental police department.

You both will have unlimited free access to a communication-skills coach for the first two years.

The mayor and council members will fund and support all requests. If you don't want your spouse to accept the offer, he/she must abide by your wishes.

There are however five (5) conditions:

1) The experimental police force must be based upon the West Point Code of Honor.

2) You and your spouse must be willing to be coached on how to manifest your stated intentions.

Some examples: Reports turned in on time, completely, accurately and legibly. Health goals and standards met with zero exceptions. All problems and dissatisfactions communicated to one's face (zero complaining or gossiping behind anyone's back).

3) You must be willing to be coached on how to support your spouse in creating a team absolutely committed to getting the job done exactly as you both envision.

4) You must be willing to be coached on how to have an organization that does not require a union.

Everyone will be so trusted and trustworthy, and so totally committed to serving each other as family, that all issues will consistently be handled internally through to mutual satisfaction.

5) You must have one three-hour meeting each week with the spouses of your spouse's senior officers and another weekly three-hour meeting with all the spouses within your spouse's new department (you will be guided/coached on how to chair these meetings).

You and your spouse may invite as many officers/personnel from the present department to fill all the required positions as you wish. The former department will receive ample funding to replace all personnel who come with you and your spouse.

Each person who comes with you and your spouse, to include newly hired people, must agree to the following three agreements.

Everyone, all officers and spouses, must agree to be willing to tell the truth to everyone at all times.
Everyone must agree to keep all of his or her agreements.
Everyone must agree to be willing to communicate openly and honestly—zero thoughts withheld from each other, zero deceits, at home or on the job. In other words, zero badmouthing and no sting operations.

survey
Ten-Item Survey:

Use the drop-down arrow to make a selection.
Use the "enter your choice" field to enter numbers such as 1 & 3, 20% etc.

1) Would you advise your spouse to accept the opportunity?

2) Which of the five conditions, if any, would you be willing to accept?

If not all of the conditions, enter which of the five you would be willing to accept.

3) Which of the three agreements, if any, would you be willing to accept?

If not all of the agreements, enter your choice of agreements

4) What percent of your spouse's present fellow police officers would you advise him/her to invite to be on the new police force? (for example 0%, 5%, 10%, 70%, etc.)

5) What percent of your spouse's fellow department members (admin, support, etc.) would you advise him/her to invite to be on the new police force?

6) What percent of those your spouse would invite do you think would accept his/her invitation? (for example 0%, 5%, 10%, 70%, etc.)

7) What would you recommend for the starting annual salary for your spouse's rookies? (for example enter $40,000, $50,000 $65,000, etc.)

8) What percent of the population do you think believes that some of the police in your spouse's department are "corrupt?" (for example enter: 1%, 2%, 5%, ___% etc.)

9) What percent of the population assumes that a few police officers cheat on his/her spouse? (for example enter: 1%, 2%, 5%, ___% etc.)

10) Do you think it's possible to have a police department with a reputation of unquestionable integrity?

Code

West Point Code of Honor

Background: The present unwritten police department code supports rookies and veteran officers alike in sometimes remaining silent if they notice a fellow officer committing an infraction of the rules. Anyone breaking this "code of silence," by bringing an infraction to the attention of the perpetrator or a senior officer, is branded a troublemaker or a snitch (a Serpico) and is shunned. Even before graduating from the police academy a potential police officer has compromised his/her integrity irreparably. Most dump complaints and badmouth about others to their spouse because they don't dare say what's on their mind to their cadre. The illusion of belonging to an inspiring, honest, organization is gone. For many it's a profound shock and disappointment.

For example:

Most every police officer knows at last one fellow officer who is cheating (deceiving) their spouse and they vote silently, for reasons, to support it. Their integrity and that of the department is compromised.

Most every officer knows at least one fellow officer who is padding their time or mileage and they vote silently to deceive their chief. Their integrity and that of the department is compromised.

Most every officer knows at least one fellow officer who should not be a police officer, yet day after day they remain silent supporting this person to continue to perpetrate their fraud on the community. Quite often the misfit is given a desk job to get them away from the public as though the person's character will change or not affect the integrity of the department as much.

Most every officer knows at least one fellow officer who is an active alcoholic who has not reported their addiction to the department. Day after day they allow/support this person to effect their suicidal behaviors on the public. Their integrity and that of the department is compromised.

Most every police officer's spouse knows at least one officer who is violating a department rule and they vote daily to look the other way, thereby supporting the perpetrator, for reasons. The integrity of their relationship and the department is compromised. They and their spouse have unconsciously sabotaged their chief and deceived the community.

The people in the above examples have lost their ability to choose to go straight even though they know that there is a correlation between their integrity and the crime rate (the integrity of the citizens they are supposed to be serving). It is not their fault. They just have not been trained to tell the truth. In this regard it is the responsibility of the police chief who him/herself is out integrity. They have created fear in their relationship with everyone and so everyone hides one or two thoughts/things from the chief, for fear of.... There is not one police chief, in any department in the world, who has learned how to be a safe space for the truth to be told. Such a department and community would be the training capital of the world's police cadre.

The West Point Code of Honor:

The West Point Code of Honor requires every cadet to confront anyone breaking any rule, including the academy cadre and staff officers, and communicate in support of the rule-breaker reporting themselves. If the rule-breaker refuses, the observing cadet communicates that they have no choice but to report them. If the observing cadet fails to report the rule-breaker, both the cadet and the rule-breaker are dismissed from the academy.

In other words, if in your spouse's new police department you found out that an officer was cheating on his/her spouse, you, not your spouse, would ask the officer to stop doing it and ask them to report the deceit to their boss. If the cheating officer refused then you would tell them you have no choice but to report it to their boss. In your new organization, a police officer would not be fired or even punished for an infraction. The only reason an officer would be asked to leave is if they refused to talk about a problem. In this way your new department would differ from any military academy. For more about this subject read, About Military Academy Scandals.

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