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> This is a dangerous abductive leap I think I could make a plausibly convincing argument that the rate of abuse is low enough that the damage to police<->publ
by rootusrootus 3y ago
> This is a dangerous abductive leap
I think I could make a plausibly convincing argument that the rate of abuse is low enough that the damage to police<->public relationship from media playing up these incidents has actually led to a more dangerous situation than the incidents themselves.
Not quite ready to go there, but I think it's worth at least considering that everyone can fall prey to media hype and blow little things entirely out of proportion, leading to a worse overall outcome. We do want to improve oversight of the police, but making them out as a public enemy seems like it might be counterproductive.
- woodruffw 3y agoWe live in an open society: the public is entitled to know when the police arrest citizens based on faulty evidence. Nobody made them perform an arrest here or in the other five cases; any damage to the police's image in the eyes of the public can be identified solely with their own actions. In this situation, the reporting seems pretty dispassionate to me (arguably more than it should be, given that a pregnant woman was arrested for a crime she manifestly could not have committed). I don't see a lack of proportion here.