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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sort of wonder if ultimately readily available video renders policing as we know it politically or economically infeasible
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the original promise of recording every police interaction was that it would prevent police from abusing their power by leaving a record. but instead we get a world where everyone can interpret intense and slightly ambiguous footage as they like every video a scissor statement
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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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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).
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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
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Most 911 calls do not need rapid response. Exception is if a violent crime is in progress then and there.
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sure im just going from his claim that often cops get sent from call to call all shift sometimes hard to achieve that kind of flexibility with many people on foot and yeah one could just put off many calls but that would have its own problems
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