Safeguarding the authority of police law enforcement should be a conscious action of the whole society.
The police in China are born with the attributes of the people, and the law enforcement power is endowed by the people. The process of police law enforcement represents the national laws and the interests of the people. Maintaining the normal law enforcement order and police law enforcement authority is related to social public order and the safety of people’s lives and property, social fairness and justice and national legal dignity.
Recently, two traffic police law enforcement incidents in Chongqing and Nanjing have been widely concerned by public opinion. On the third day of New Year’s Eve, Yang Xuefeng, a Chongqing traffic policeman, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by the criminal suspect Zhang in his traffic security post in Spring Festival travel rush, and died heroically. Not long ago, Shi Weinian, a traffic policeman in Nanjing, died after being dragged and crushed while checking vehicles and stopping suspects from escaping by car. While condemning the heinous atrocities of criminals, public opinion also issued a strong voice of "safeguarding the authority of police law enforcement."
Analysis of two incidents in which the traffic police were attacked and sacrificed, it is common that the criminal suspects trampled on the police law enforcement authority unscrupulously. Zhang was dissatisfied after being ordered to correct by the traffic police Yang Xuefeng for illegally riding two people on a motorcycle. He went home with a sharp knife and returned to the scene to stab Yang’s abdomen and neck several times to make his sacrifice; In order to avoid the inspection at the checkpoint, Wang drove a punch card to drag Shi Wei for tens of meters, crushing his chest and abdomen, causing his sacrifice. If Zhang and Wang have a little awareness of the rule of law and can correctly treat the police’s law enforcement behavior, two tragedies should be avoided.
The police in China are born with the attributes of the people, and the law enforcement power is endowed by the people. The process of police law enforcement represents the national laws and the interests of the people. Maintaining the normal law enforcement order and police law enforcement authority is related to social public order and the safety of people’s lives and property, social fairness and justice and national legal dignity. Despise or even trample on the police’s law enforcement authority, and confront not only the individual police, but the national laws represented by the law enforcement police; It is not only the security of the police force that is endangered, but the whole order rules, public safety and the interests of the people.
Yang Xuefeng and Shi Weinian, traffic policemen, were attacked and killed in the course of law enforcement, which are just two cases in which many front-line police and auxiliary police officers encountered violent resistance to the law during their normal law enforcement duties. According to relevant data, in 2017, 361 public security policemen were killed and 6,234 were injured in the line of duty, and another 126 auxiliary policemen were killed in the line of duty. Among them, the proportion of policemen and auxiliary policemen who died and were injured because of violent resistance to the law is not low. Today, with the deepening of the rule of law, incidents of challenging the police’s law enforcement authority and violent resistance to the law are still frequent. The reason is that some people’s awareness of the rule of law is weak and some online public opinion guidance is biased, which is still an important factor that cannot be avoided.
In reality, in the face of the normal law enforcement by the police, some people have a weak awareness of the rule of law, coupled with selfish mentality, putting personal interests above the law, social order and public safety. Under the distorted logic, they regard the normal law enforcement by the police as "making things difficult" for themselves and do not hesitate to try their own laws. In the online public opinion field, in the face of vicious criminals, there are always some voices that sympathize with them in the name of vulnerable groups. After Yang Xuefeng and Shi Weinian were attacked and sacrificed, there even appeared abnormal remarks praising the murderers as "righteous men", which boosted the arrogance of violent resistance to the law. These problems need to be solved by the whole society.
Not long ago, in view of the frequent occurrence of violent resistance to the law, the Ministry of Public Security asked local public security organs to take strong measures to effectively strengthen the protection of police law enforcement rights and interests, further promote the standardization of law enforcement, and resolutely safeguard national legal dignity and police law enforcement authority. These measures have won the praise of the public security police and the public. However, we should also see that it is the proper meaning for the construction of China ruled by law to respect the law and abide by the law. Maintaining the authority of police law enforcement should become the conscious action of the whole society. Only when people are yelling at those who are violent against the law and ensuring that the police’s policing behavior and legitimate rights and interests are effectively protected can we create a more upright and just law enforcement environment. (Li Shanjiang)