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Related to my other comment, I think we need individual police to submit to, and eventually desire, continued intensive training on the topic of justice. Perhap
by aklemm 11y ago
Related to my other comment, I think we need individual police to submit to, and eventually desire, continued intensive training on the topic of justice. Perhaps it can start in one town: fire all the officers that don't happily attend classes on justice.
- gnaritas 11y agoTraining isn't the issue, lack of punishment is. They know what they're doing is wrong.
- aklemm 11y agoThis is probably a very practical truth. Nonetheless, there seem to be a lot of police who are actually saying the wrong things (as well as doing the wrong things), and I have to think they don't quite know right from wrong.
- andreyf 11y agoI think they know what is "wrong" in the sense that they ought to be punished for it, and they see themselves not being punished for it (except for "free vacations"), hence they see their personal (not incredibly developed) morals above that of the morality enforcement mechanisms society puts on them. They probably override what we see as decency by simple reasonings ("those people have no idea what it's like on the street"), and they're addicts trippin' on that power and moral superiority.
- gnaritas 11y agoThey may have forgotten, but they knew when they started; you forget when you're not punished. The issue is lack of consequences.