mamabearCali wrote:Instead of teaching my children about officer friendly I have to teach them that if they ever think a policeman is angry at them or that they are in trouble, they are to sit still, tell the LEO my name and ask for me or my husband and not say anything else, because police are permitted to lie to my children.
That's good advice. Any company, agency or other organization whose rules allow them to lie to you is not a group you can trust, according to their own rules. It's even worse with the organizations whose rules allow them to lie to others but will punish others who lie to them. Add the disparity of power between adults and children, even when the adults are not authority figures, and you have a situation that's ripe for abuse.