Officer Michael Brelo jumped up on the hood of the victim's car and fired 15 bullets in less than 10 seconds at the two, unarmed, front seat occupants.
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The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed in 1829 to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in the principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.
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