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Follow the incentives. As a police officer: Why risk your life to arrest someone who will immediately be released, all in the name of a citizenry that hates yo
by thebiteitstings 2y ago
Follow the incentives.
As a police officer: Why risk your life to arrest someone who will immediately be released, all in the name of a citizenry that hates you (ACAB)?
- abracadaniel 2y agoBecause that’s the job. If the police want to be respected again, they need to earn it by proving they aren’t all what everyone believes them to be. Responding to criticism by ceasing to do the job is just earning more hatred.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> If the police want to be respected again, they need to earn it by proving they aren’t all what everyone believes them to be And if they won’t—and continue to collect a paycheque—they should be fired for cause. We did it in 1857 in New York, when the corrupt Municipal police were replaced by the Metropolitans, consolidating “the police in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester County (which then included The Bronx), under a Governor of New York-appointed board of commissioners” [1]. Perhaps Sacramento can repeat the feat. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Police_Department https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...