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Maybe known corrupt locales should be subject to a similar interstate traveling circuit system as the one that judges followed (what the "circuit" in "circuit c
by cxr 4y ago
Maybe known corrupt locales should be subject to a similar interstate traveling circuit system as the one that judges followed (what the "circuit" in "circuit court" originally referred to—albeit for different reasons).
If the issue is police and sheriff's departments having roots in the crime world of LA, then perhaps the appropriate mitigation strategy is for those departments to be wholesale swapped out with ones that were previously operating in, say, Idaho. The idea is that what these regions need are law enforcement, and any PD or sheriff's department educated on local laws should do. All of the reasonable arguments against this that I can anticipate are ones that involve so-called problems that either have trivial solutions, or are actually just a collection of tremendous upsides only dressed up to seem bad.
Change my view.
- voakbasda 4y agoWhat citizens would trade their own police force for one known to be corrupt to the core? That’s asking to import violence into their previously peaceful towns. You are basically asking to spread the disease everywhere; this is not a cure.
- codalan 4y agoNobody's safe when the Potato Crew comes to town.
- cxr 4y ago> You are basically asking to spread the disease everywhere Only if you're not paying attention. Corrupt departments getting swapped out for others limits their impact in the affected region. The same principle is at play at the next location. Additionally: corruption thrives (e.g. in the first location) because it has the necessary preconditions to tolerate it; courts and the local folks at the next location are not going to take up a passive posture if the new guys show up and their town is plunged into corruption. Both factors should lead to the corrupt departments being discouraged to the point that they recognize the futility. Alternatively, you could limit it to only swapping out the LA units for the ones that were in Idaho, sending the LA ones nowhere—they're just gone. The problem, after all, is the inability to get rid of all law enforcement headcount in an entire region, even if it is by and large thoroughly corrupt. The Idahoans coming in make that a non-issue.