Sup tweeps — my feed has been pretty dedicated on #AltonSterling lately, and I know, you came here for electrons and robots and whatnot.
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I would hope that direct experience is not required for empathy, but I think I would have been pressed to "get" this before it myself.
I have been thinking lately that it would be great if police recruiting policy didn't self-select for people inclined to brutality
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Immediately unclear how to achieve this but seems somewhat necessary in light of what things have become.
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Have you read about the Menlo Park uniforms thing from the 60s/70s?
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There was a recent 99% Invisible podcast about it. Demilitarized titles, uniforms.http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-blazer-experiment/ …
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I'm not sure whether that would solve much - in Shane Bauers prison story he saw himself change in just 3 months
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On the contrary I think that's evidence that it is highly possible to create a different culture. People are highly mutable
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for sure I think it can and must be done. but I’d start by changing the incentives towards accountability
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I wonder how police violence correlates with diversity of the police force/how representative of the population they are
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police forces with similar makeup to communities see no change in misconduct rates
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see for example Brad Smith's work, as in https://networks.h-net.org/node/16794/reviews/17176/adler-holmes-and-smith-race-and-police-brutality-roots-urban-dilemma …
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My brother failed to make the police force here. He failed the psych test. He is calm, kind and looks to "make peace".
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