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> If you don't release arrest records, it's easier for the police to do questionable things (particularly to the poor and otherwise disadvantaged) without it be
by swatcoder 2y ago
> If you don't release arrest records, it's easier for the police to do questionable things (particularly to the poor and otherwise disadvantaged) without it being visible to the media, public, and those that might seek to right these wrongs.
Hot take: you could have professinal journalists who have trafficked in the incidents but reserved publication of them investigate patterns of misbehavior in community institutions like the police.
I mean, you can't now, as we seem to have crossed some kind of rubicon and abandoned investigative professional journalism for blogspam and tabloid, but that had been the functioning alternative for a while there. Maybe we can find a new functioning alternative?
- yencabulator 2y agoIt's a "who will police the police" problem, and letting the police choose who gets to view arrest records isn't going to be a great solution.
- liontwist 2y agoYou can’t understand the journalism problem until you face that it has always been propaganda and PR. We just didn’t know how bad it was until we had alternative sources. Maybe there was a little more effort, beyond writing up a tweet or Reddit conversation. But at its core Journalism is narrative crafting (or narrative repeating). And fueled by upper class peer recognition.