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I Am Your Progressive Mayor and I Think We Need to Cut Our Roving Death Squads a Bit of Slack
“New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the New York City Police Department after a pair of the force’s SUVs drove into a crowd during Saturday’s p...
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It wouldn't be the cop that does that, and there in lies a big problem with the system. You can have all the street cops in the world, but if you don't have the detectives and DAs that can actually process and investigate cases, it doesn't matter. We have this exact problem. There is some crossover of course, but the street cops aren't the ones to run down stuff like this. Cops can make arrests, detectives can put together cases. Vehicle thefts are insane here (as well as general violence and crime). You'd think in a damn-near totally-landlocked location WITH traffic cameras, this would be stupid-easy, you can see where everyone goes and narrow it all down damn near instantly. There's nowhere to "go", but the street cops here are in damage-control mode nearly all the time and there's no time for anything but the most violent stuff. The stabbings and shootings, which we have a lot of, DO get investigation and are pursued for the most part, but the gap between what is and what isn't investigated is miles wide. The stuff short of blowing someone away simply isn't investigated. The street cops get all the visibility, as in "if we have more cops, we can stop crime", so the cycle keeps repeating indefinitely, because staffing the DA and detectives to allow cases to be pursued just never happens. Every time a bond comes up and the city wants to do some meaningless thing that doesn't address the real issue with our law enforcement here, so I always vote against them.
Yeah, this guy attacked me with a stick because I was wheelie-ing:
Chilling. Gives a possible explaination to a few very weird and uncomfortable encounters I have had with police. I don't really question the description of Cop culture but I do question how much was written by a former officer. Very well written and goes from aw shucks don't listen to me I am just a bastard cop, to solid socioeconomic analysis with proposed solutions including properly referenced quotes. I don't question that one could go from a police officer to an accomplished journalist and political scientist, but it would be more believable if one's professional credentials were mentioned even if anonymously.Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
Worth your time.
What Would Efforts to Defund or Disband Police Departments Really Mean? (Published 2020)
Much is not yet certain, but here’s what is known so far about some efforts to defund or abolish police departments.www.nytimes.com
"Advocates for police reform are making the case that the phrase “defund the police” doesn’t mean what many people think it means. “Be not afraid,” Christy E. Lopez, a Georgetown University law professor, wrote in The Washington Post. “‘Defunding the police’ is not as scary (or even as radical) as it sounds.”
What it actually means, these advocates say, is reducing police budgets and no longer asking officers to do many jobs that they often don’t even want to do: resolving family and school disputes, moving homeless people into shelters and so on. Instead, funding for education, health care and other social services would increase. (For more detail on the movement’s agenda, you can read this Times explainer.)
The challenge for advocates is that many people equate “defunding” with a major reduction in policing — and they don’t like that idea. Reducing police budgets is arguably the only high-profile reform idea that’s not popular:
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Same as ANTIFA - they should start writing it out fully - ANTI-FASCIST.
Consistent with what I observed when receiving firearms training from a Vermont state policeman, and VSP are relative boy scouts.
I think you may be missing the intent. A kind of declaration that it is no longer the police's station. That is where things have come to conflict every night for a week. Every night the protesters basically have taunted the police into a violent overreaction. The protesters lost every tactical encounter but are winning the political war. Last night the police stayed inside.
No I get it but the problem is that it's still occupied by the army. As far as aspirational goals, it does read much better. But it's still what's inside that counts. Not yet people unfortunately.
Could be @JohnE. Solid dude with probably too much political awareness for his own sanity, given his former line of work.
Thought the USA wasn't a signatory to that?
Way, way longer than that.
Let's start with us as Europeans invading the continent and murdering and enslaving the occupants.Sorry I try to only comment upon event's from within my own lifetime.
So you just go right ahead and talk about the time you invaded the Philippines or annexed Califonia/Texas.
That was good read, but there are legitimate doubts that it was written by an actual cop.Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
Worth your time.
And now we're (the whole world is) in corporate empire building.
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Do go on. What makes you say that?
