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Body cams, more training, and weed out the the few idiots who give all cops a bad name. Put more cops on the sidewalks, walking the beat, getting to know the co
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
Body cams, more training, and weed out the the few idiots who give all cops a bad name. Put more cops on the sidewalks, walking the beat, getting to know the community.
Beyond that, Americans need to decide whether they want safe, orderly streets, or a free wheeling semi-anarchy.
Reining in the police, cutting budgets, calling for the abolition of prisons: this is lunacy. A permissive, forgiving, compassionate approach was tried in the 1970s and it failed miserably.
- ddingus 6y agoRight now the dominant doctrine is escalation of force to compliance. This being the primary tool, coupled with aggressive liability management is why there are so many harmful outcomes. Training in deescalation techniques as well as more options to hand off problems that are not serious crimes, or are maybe violations, to entities much better equipped to handle them than the criminal justice system is would do us a lot of good. Escalation is also amplified by militarization. Lots of money there. Maybe there shouldn't be, or it is allocated differently. No one is seriously debating a lack of police. A primary goal of defund efforts appears to be getting at the means of control and incentives that have brought us here. Further, the longer we stay here, ahem, escalating? Abolitionists garner a stronger case and support. I do not agree with the harder, extreme stance out there, but I also completely understand how compelling it can be. This, so far, has continued to be escalated. I get it. Admitting failure equates to weakness and loss of legitimacy, but isn't that happening on a large scale anyway? Police need more options same as ordinary people do. Those can be found by having a real conversation, and that starts by deescalation all around.