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American policing today is in a state of slow-motion collapse, struggling mightily to attract new officers — no matter how low standards are dropped.
Under sustained assault by the City Council, pundits and self-styled civil-liberties advocates, a new generation of New York City cops is being conditioned to avoid showdowns with civilians, especially where coercion or force is called for. We could have saved the costly investment in body cameras by explicitly telling the cops two words: “Do nothing.”
Officers who do more engagement than what is absolutely required have been threatened by HQ that they’ll find themselves on a list of “troublemakers.” Thousands have, or will soon, head for the exits, telling all within earshot to avoid police work as a career.
In many parts of the country, the police have gone to ground.
Racked by gun violence and pervasive fear, Detroit managed to get through 2016 without police shooting anyone — even as murders continued to rise. Police paralysis is great news for the elite critics of the cops but terrible news for the people dragooned in that town — it likely signals that the police are taking the long and winding road around trouble of all kinds.
In Chicago, the street cops’ ethos is “go fetal, stay fetal.” In Philadelphia, as murders soar, cops are the ones in prosecutors’ crosshairs. It is crystal clear what was long suspected: Costly Justice Department intervention in local police departments expedited the end of hands-on policing.
Uncounted millions are being spent on “community policing” — where officers socialize with a relatively tiny cohort of community residents, some seeking improper benefits from the relationship — when a lot of that money could be better used on enhanced overnight and outer-borough patrols, reducing response times and better training officers to diagnose and handle the 5 million calls that pour in to the NYPD each year.
After all, most serious crimes in New York go unsolved, as they do throughout the nation. We must resist the trap of presentism — conditions at present are acceptable and will be thus so in the future.
Rearranging policing so that it revolves around fault-finding is going to have grave consequences in communities where the police are needed most. But all over the country, policing is now about avoiding all but the most essential, life-and-death interactions.
Two recent videos of public officials being pulled over, one in New Jersey and the other in Baltimore, were seen as triumphs for the officers who remained calm and professional in the midst of a shower of abuse and name-dropping.
The truth, however, is that the proliferation of video recording of cops’ every interaction only will increase officers’ timidity. That will look like self-restraint in some cases, but overall it’ll put law enforcement on the defensive and dull cops’ instincts.
String together a series of adversarial videos, and almost every officer can find him or herself fast-tracked to trouble.
The new-era calculation for the police is: Conflict is the quickest path to extinction.
Some of this was wholly predictable when people who harbor disdain for the police and resent law enforcement are allowed to pose as reformers.
Without a debate of any kind, they have been able to tear down the institution of American policing across the country. Scratch the surface in trendy, uber-safe New York neighborhoods and you will hear public safety and disorder concerns from more than a few. Aggressive panhandling, unreported petty and retail thefts, noise and disorder complaints and a feeling of insecurity on mass transit accompany complaints by those in public housing and poorer communities that violence is never too far away.
There’s no denying that aggressive policing has led to abuse. But often overlooked in the debate was that it was an accomplishment to have police departments where cops patrolled with windows rolled down, engaged those who imperiled community safety and serenity, and where those bent on harming others were forced to look over their shoulders. This era of policing, cops grappling with festering issues, replaced the 1970s and 1980s police paralysis that saw millions leave cities behind as officials themselves acknowledged they were unable to protect their citizenry.
The result of all this is that policing is hurtling to a whole new, uncharted and largely unchosen place. One thing we know from the past is that whether dealing with terrorism or day-to-day issues of crime and disorder, blindly depending on hope can have dangerous, even devastating consequences.
Eugene O’Donnell, a former NYPD cop, is a professor of law and police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)
Zero sum games aren't successful in real life.
That page is now conveniently gone.
Your just like cyclist, when your myth is blown out of the water you cry racist.
In addition.,,, there are bad examples in every profession. For the most part however if you behave, do as you are told and show a modicum of restraint when interacting with them nothing adverse will happen.
"Today is MINE"
You don't make a cop mad when you have an illegal covering over your light, it will cost you more than waiting two seconds and pulling in behind the cop, Probably cost him $100 for pulling in front of a State Trooper.
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I am just here for my amusement.
I just want to let people like Cyclist know that cops aren't racists, they can treat everyone equally bad. It is just when it is a minority that it becomes a big deal.
“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Thanks for the info conchydong
slavery was no myth.
it's legacy is still dividing us
My father was 60 years old when I was born.
His father was 60 years old when he was born.
I was born in 1949.
My grandfather owned slaves. Lots of them.
I would submit that that class of "black criminals, loafer, and ne'er-do-wells" was a small percentage of the black community until the 1960s. Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s and combined with the effects of the "Great Society" breaking up black families, that criminal class began dictating popular culture within the black community and then to American society as a whole thru the rise of hip-hop and the street/thug culture. The leaders of the black community pre-late 1960s would have barfed on the low values espoused by that criminal underclass. In recent decades, the leadership embraced those low values. The overall state of the black community is way worse than it was in the immediate post-civil rights era, and it is mostly self-inflicted.
As far as the other things discussed in this thread, I also lament the militarization of the police. But its a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people hate on the police, the more they feel under fire and the more "us vs. them" they become in response to the citizenry taking the same attitude against them. And then the more standoffish the police become with hostile citizens, the more citizens feel under siege by police.
Both sides have to equally agree to break the cycle or else its just going to keep escalating.
Couple that with a lack of family structures in many urban areas, and the some consequences are bad. Un-intended consequences of the welfare system (lack of married couples) has taught generations to reproduce without proper financial planning...
*i might add that central-planning (liberal) policies have been implemented and tried in all of these ghetto areas with any success. But, perhaps they want voters to be "slaves" to the democrat party?
Are you on a guilt trip because of your grandfather?
There is plenty of evidence that the program and other social engineering is responsible for the destruction of the family unit both black and white.
By the way, the Korean War ended when you were 3 years old. I doubt you have memories of it unless you were a kid living in Pusan??
I remember learning to talk. I could understand what they were saying but they couldn't understand what I was saying. I remember that.
I also remember learning to read when I was three years old. No one taught me. I just figured it out on my own after learning the alphabet song.
I also remember my cousin was worried sick that he would be recalled and sent back to war.
What does slavery have to do with LBJ and his war on poverty. The legacy of slavery was poverty for the ex slaves and their descendants.
The War on Poverty worked very well until Nixon defunded it in order to continue the 'Nam War.
We are all paying for the sin of slavery. Its' legacy still divides our nation, weakens us and makes us more vulnerable to our enemies.
"Today is MINE"
Here is just one,
https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/09/16/favors-to-blacks
“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Do you remember all of your past lives too? Do you correspond with Shirley Mclaine (sp) much?
I also need to remind you, very few people could find they had an ancestor that hadn’t been a slave once. It use to be the way the world worked. Check your past lives carefully before thinking it only happened to 1 race.