RE: Good Cop/Bad Cop? Nope. All Good.
February 24, 2019 at 9:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2019 at 9:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The militarization of our police is a known known..and going concern. I'm not going to argue militarization into existence. I'll state it for the fact that it is and you and I can have a conversation about that, or not.
Militarization effects peoples interactions, and the average of outcomes. A good cop can be a good cop and because of systemic inadequacy, do a terrible thing. Put simply, the tools a person has in their hands describe the persona that they have assumed - it affects us psychologically. Aditionally, people are compelled to see a use for whatever tool they happen to be holding when a problem crops up that needs solving. If we fit a traffic cop out like he's about to breach Osama's bunker, he's gonna do that whether you put him in front of osama or an 80 year old mans trailer. We don't get to plead surprise when our uniformed personnel act the part we've given them.
If we allow our domestic policing to set up checkpoints for papers and seize property on suspicion..if we fail to hold them accountable for the outcomes of their actions, and while doing that give them the kind of gear you'd need for regime change in a foreign shithole...we're going to get exactly what we have. A band of jovial marauders immune to the rule of law. Scant few of them individually horrible people. An occupying force. Clearly distinct from their peers in method and outcome.
Militarization effects peoples interactions, and the average of outcomes. A good cop can be a good cop and because of systemic inadequacy, do a terrible thing. Put simply, the tools a person has in their hands describe the persona that they have assumed - it affects us psychologically. Aditionally, people are compelled to see a use for whatever tool they happen to be holding when a problem crops up that needs solving. If we fit a traffic cop out like he's about to breach Osama's bunker, he's gonna do that whether you put him in front of osama or an 80 year old mans trailer. We don't get to plead surprise when our uniformed personnel act the part we've given them.
If we allow our domestic policing to set up checkpoints for papers and seize property on suspicion..if we fail to hold them accountable for the outcomes of their actions, and while doing that give them the kind of gear you'd need for regime change in a foreign shithole...we're going to get exactly what we have. A band of jovial marauders immune to the rule of law. Scant few of them individually horrible people. An occupying force. Clearly distinct from their peers in method and outcome.
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