My worthless view is police should remain police, soldiers remain soldiers, & 'the warrior' remain a 1984 hit song by Scandal
There's the problem: police wanting to be warriors. Military aren't warriors: we're professionals. Warriors are undisciplined individuals.https://twitter.com/MarshallProj/status/881302151913500672 …
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That's a good view
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Police are supposed to be guardians of the community, not warriors in occupied territory.
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By the way, sir, Loved your livetweet of Day 1 of the Battle of Gettysburg. Now I won't have to watch the 4 hour long movie this weekend!
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Outstanding! Will be keeping up with it as best I can over next two days
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I'm afraid your over-generalization is flawed. As a retired LEO w/significant experience, I know job is much more complex than you think.
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I should've said "some police wanting to be warriors."
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I'd really like to have a long conversation with you on this topic sometime. Twitter can't begin to do it justice.
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There’s a certain set of LEO, particularly in smaller, less professional departments, that fetishizes military aesthetics and posturing.
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Local sheriffs departments are some of the worst. Even worse when they let civilian sponsors go on rides. Everyone acts out.
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or when they are hated by so many people that the 1% can break police unions & hire cheaper headbreakers -anti pub sector unions next 2/2
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police have been encouraged to think of themselves as separate from rest of labor as ppl who work for 1%. concerned abt public sector unions
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This, a 1000%. Too many young unprofressional cops believe they are blue warriors, at war with a disobedient citizenry who must be subdued.
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And this kind of gung ho cop endangers professional police who understand effective policing is rarely about a gun.
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If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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I've encountered 3 kinds of cops. Bullies from school that want to be bullies as adults The bullied from school, that want be the bullies
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and the one in 100 that honestly wants to 'serve and protect'
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The connection between militarization & any uptick in police violence isn't there, actually the opposite. Philosophical objections remain
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The article's stats seem to show a connectionpic.twitter.com/JcsXvnMvan
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I'd be curious to see the numbers. Figures on police killings seem too small for any such analysis.
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