Nine Principles of Policing by Consent

Magna Carta Plus

Civitas

4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. 7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. 9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

You'd better be on the right side of the law

WTOP

Vaccaro said Gugliotta and the others convicted were unlikely
to go to jail because the statute of limitation on their alleged crimes expires early next year, long before appeals would be completed. Defendants in Italy usually do not go to jail until they have exhausted appeals.

The G-8 summit in Genoa saw riots by anti-globalization activists that left one protester dead, more than 200 people injured, 240 detained and millions of dollars in damages.

Last year, a Genoa court convicted 24 protesters on charges of
devastation and looting, giving them sentences ranging from five months to 11 years in jail.