for context, this was in Crown Heights, a predominantly black/afro-carribean neighborhood. I used to live in that neighborhood, down the block from the subway platform this occurred at. it's a rapidly gentrifying area and has almost constant heavy police presence.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
the NYPD interprets EVERY new enforcement initiative thusly: "we must hit our compstat numbers by the end of the month and that means we have to increase our arrest account and we know we can mostly get away with terrorizing the black folks so we're gonna do that first"
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
seems like cops are necessary but cop culture seems uniformly awful is it possible to change a police dept's culture? are there any depts with better culture?
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Replying to @halvorz @eigenrobot
I think it's a scale problem. smaller cities have less problematic police. if you compare NYC with similar cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.) you see the same pattern in all of them.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
a lot of smaller/small cities have horrible police though maybe on average better? no idea.
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Replying to @halvorz @eigenrobot
yeah i dunno. i've yet to see a good model for policing. turns out if you give people guns and the authority to get away with using them it attracts sociopaths.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
I was thinking about the UK -they seem to be better about brutality and whatnot, and often don't carry guns however 1)they seem to be making a creepy nanny/surveillance state and 2) not carrying guns probs a non-starter in the united states of guns
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Replying to @halvorz @danlistensto
they could be more like victorian bobbies wrt public stances and more like Japanese cops wrt armaments maybe?
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one idea I like is having cops live and work in the same precinct no idea how feasible and probably there are lots of problems with this approach idk
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Replying to @eigenrobot @halvorz
my unrealistic solution is to take 'quis custodiet ipsos custodes' as an ethical imperative and implement a separate department, accountable directly to the public, that is solely responsible for investigating the police. also they would be equipped with power armor
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I dont see how this is unrealistic
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