Just breaking your balls, Gawd...but here we see a major part of the problem.
They define "good cops" in a far different manner than the public should.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-fo...g-arrests/
They define "good cops" in a far different manner than the public should.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-fo...g-arrests/
Quote:Former Baltimore cop says the ‘blue Kool-Aid’ pushes cops to ‘go chase drug arrests’
Quote:In an interview with the Real News Network, Wood said the very basis of police work is wrong. Police are measured by the number of arrests they make, not by their success in deescalating and resolving situations peacefully.
“So, you have the metric in policing, which is arrest,” he said. “So every officer is judged upon their arrests. So you don’t get credit for deescalating a situation. Say it takes an hour to deescalate a situation but you could have moved on in 5 minutes by making an arrest, well then the easy route is that you’re going to get credit for the arrest… so you may as well do it.”
Wood said there are no “official” arrest quotas, but officers that don’t make enough arrests are seen as not working hard enough, he said. As a supervisor, Wood expected his officers to make about 10 arrests a month.
“Certainly that’s part of the problem, I was pushing them for arrests,” he said. About 90 percent of what he did as an officer was “go chase drug arrests.”