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 …
-
-
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
Show this thread -
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
Show this thread -
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
Show this thread -
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
Show this thread -
-
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
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
There are some free tradeoffs suggested there, like reducing paperwork (he's also suggested elsewhere that it helps to replace cars with foot patrols, which sounds right).
-
it sort of does but if you have a lot of foot patrols then you cant have rapid responses to 911 calls, the feds love paperwork in consent decree things, hard to force cops to patrol places where they might get in neck deep, etc feels a bit hopeless but i may be too pessimistic
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
i used to be and now in spite of my new concern I don't have any opinion at all because it doesnt matter, videos not going anywhere
- Show replies
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.