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I think he makes a good point in the video that when your only tool is a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail. The police get vehicles towed so often
by pcaharrier 2y ago
I think he makes a good point in the video that when your only tool is a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail. The police get vehicles towed so often that doing it in this situation didn't seem strange to them at all.
- sbuttgereit 2y agoAgree completely. It's one reason I'm weary of the police. What for them is just the daily grind, not unlike fixing a software bug is for many in this audience, is for others very possibly negatively life-impacting or even negatively life-changing. I have to imagine it's all too easy to let routine and normalcy blunt consideration of the impacts of that routine or allow you to ignore the responsibility that such power over others rightfully demands. To be clear, I'm not necessarily talking about an individual officer carrying out assigned duties (though it may all still largely apply)... I'm really speaking about low and mid-level policy decisions that are just out-of-press-scrutiny... the indifference of a bureaucracy to the power it wields over others but to which society simply doesn't care enough to make a stink.