First, Just in case is a pretty dismissive statement. If last week some scrawny kid pulled a boot knife in custody and my buddy Frank (you remember Frank, tall

First, Just in case is a pretty dismissive statement. If last week some scrawny kid pulled a boot knife in custody and my buddy Frank (you remember Frank, tall guy, worked nights a lot to avoid his wife - yeah the one with the dodgy leg) got cut you'll find my attitude to custody risk change pretty heavily. Every single suspect is getting cuffed and de booted because fuck them I'm not risking my life for no reason. Second once you treat people differently based on perception of behaviour (professional judgement) you need oversight. Once you need oversight you need records. Once you need records booking takes longer. Ok. So now we've got evidence that police discriminate due to race/gender/something and bobs your uncle everyone gets locked down for booking again to undo that. Armchair policing reminds me a lot of armchair generalling - sure is easy to say what should (have) happen(ed) when you're completely removed from the situation. Police officers are irrational human beings who are influenced by all sorts of extraneous factors on any given day. Not to mention that's with the assumption they're basically good people doing their best to do the right thing™ which probs doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Of course I don't have answers, I just think this stuff is really hard.