substack about public policy around policing by apparently a former cop. i have mixed feelings about this but I find his incentive-based arguments of interest https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1382917027506089984 …
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so the claim from the linked piece is that for a variety of reasons police don't care to do proactive policing, or just can't for other reasons, and this leads to more murders as police pull back i have no idea whether this is plausible but say we accept it arguendo
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like . . . idk. i dont see individual incentives under current law being compatible with having a functional police force. personal views aside I would not want to work as a cop in any situation where I might plausibly have to use force in these conditions, and
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certainly individual antipolice actors have every incentive to push this from the other side. and it seems likely eventually you get a loop where departments shrink, work gets worse, ad infinitum except to zero
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so then maybe you could change the legal environment to prevent this outcome but I don't really see that happening in the current political environment, and even if we go back to early 90s era crime levels the video scissors are still gonna be there
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but of course no one actually wants to live in an early 90s era inner city crime level neighborhood so you get the old pattern of flight to the suburbs and probably lots of low profile means of keeping likely criminals out, no one would acknowledge it as such but theyd be there
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podcast featuring the substack author. excerpt from transcript related to the above https://twitter.com/what_ntarnation/status/1382989493347622913?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/N6tpy57zYk
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