It's funny that he is so focused on the small minority of bad police officers, and so heedless of the small minority of repeat criminal offenders who account for the vast majority of crime.
Actually he isn't. The article focuses extensively on Black dysfunction. His conclusion at the end is that while the same reform tactics would work with POC, implementing the policy wouldn't be possible.
Ha, this may be hard to believe, but I meant to refer not to the black population, but to the much smaller population of hardcore recidivist criminals.
There's a mirror effect. A minority of cops engage in excessive use of force and a minority of Blacks are responsible for the vast majority of Black-perpetrated crime.
A real minority majority problem, as it were. The issue, as I see it, is that as long as there are hardcore recidivist criminals---we're talking common law felons, murder rape mayhem arson burglary, etc.---there will be demands for rigorous enforcement, if not victims baying for blood. Brutal/totalitarian/invasive police tactics fill that demand, and in a nation as large as ours, with as many police stops as occur, there are going to be enough George Floyd-style incidents to keep the whole mau mauing juice-cycle running. (This is so regardless of how good we make police, since their job by its nature is tough and a certain type of person will be filling it, no matter what.)
Yet we have ample tools to take on crime on the production end. We have the tools to track and incapacitate and execute the ~0.001% of people who make up the very worst offenders -- but instead, we have a criminal justice system that, in the name of provisioning due process and rights to the innocent, ends up ensuring that the guilty are relatively free.
And note the ironic consequence: the practical due process rights of innocent, law-abiding citizens will tend to be impinged in proportion to the very worst criminals who are not effectively punished.
The police and soldiers need to quit, formally or on the job, I’m a veteran (MIL) we are betrayed on every side.
Fend for yourselves.
This is what’s happening BTW.
It's funny that he is so focused on the small minority of bad police officers, and so heedless of the small minority of repeat criminal offenders who account for the vast majority of crime.
Actually he isn't. The article focuses extensively on Black dysfunction. His conclusion at the end is that while the same reform tactics would work with POC, implementing the policy wouldn't be possible.
Ha, this may be hard to believe, but I meant to refer not to the black population, but to the much smaller population of hardcore recidivist criminals.
There's a mirror effect. A minority of cops engage in excessive use of force and a minority of Blacks are responsible for the vast majority of Black-perpetrated crime.
A real minority majority problem, as it were. The issue, as I see it, is that as long as there are hardcore recidivist criminals---we're talking common law felons, murder rape mayhem arson burglary, etc.---there will be demands for rigorous enforcement, if not victims baying for blood. Brutal/totalitarian/invasive police tactics fill that demand, and in a nation as large as ours, with as many police stops as occur, there are going to be enough George Floyd-style incidents to keep the whole mau mauing juice-cycle running. (This is so regardless of how good we make police, since their job by its nature is tough and a certain type of person will be filling it, no matter what.)
Yet we have ample tools to take on crime on the production end. We have the tools to track and incapacitate and execute the ~0.001% of people who make up the very worst offenders -- but instead, we have a criminal justice system that, in the name of provisioning due process and rights to the innocent, ends up ensuring that the guilty are relatively free.
And note the ironic consequence: the practical due process rights of innocent, law-abiding citizens will tend to be impinged in proportion to the very worst criminals who are not effectively punished.
That is no longer what it is in the name of. And those things are achievable while also following your prescription.
What it is in the name of keeps showing its ass while (im)purity spiraling into absurdity. Time to take that shit on and take it down.
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