Bacon taco
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community policing undertaken by militarized police forces is just public relations, though.
if there’s solid evidence that there are sharply divergent rates of violence among PDs that do community policing and those that don’t, I’d be delighter to hear it. My understanding is that there are not.
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Yeah, you social “scientist” types would need to figure that out. And actual community policing not NYPD/LAPD community policing.
they would need to figure out … your assertion? your fantasy typology?
I get that “there’s no community policing possible by militarized police forces” is the same kind of reduction as “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism”, but I stand by my point. The US military itself does this too - they were trying to bulk up a community relations training program for Iraq and Afghanistan once it was clear that they couldn’t win an occupation and also that they were stuck there for a long time.
Make traditional policing a small bureau of a larger social service provision systam and you might get something like community policing.
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Yes. Thanks.
Can’t post the specific video, but the thumbnail is a pic of the stem below one of a cat. It’s a ways down.
I used to fix cop bikes. It’s insane how beat up they get. Idk how many times you can rebuild a mid oughts Cannondale and it’s the same Cannondale.
Community officer that patrolled the area near the shop was pretty woke for a cop. Specifically sought out this kind of work because he thought policing from a car was pointless. Overall decent human. I think he got “promoted”. If he has a replacement, we never see them. 
Ironically a former employee is now a cop and seems to be totally soaking up the crappy cop culture. Sees the worst in everything.
Just gonna say: lots of decent people work as cops, no doubt. It’s the way the institution is structured that I don’t like.
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Did you ever know Geoff the Cop? I think he left the force a few years ago because they knew he was ‘one of the good ones’ and they kept sticking him with hardass partners. Also loved to work the bike route but they didn’t let him because ya know, no fun.
The owner of two local bike shops here recently became a cop.
He somehow still owns the bike shops as far as I know, but I haven’t seen him at the shops for months.
He’s a super duper nice guy so it’s kind of a shocking left turn for the guy.
This is not the cop thread
And I know acab and all that
But what if your good friend who is a good dude is becoming a cop because they want to change the toxic culture in a small way
What then?
This is not a call to give leniency or compassion to dickish cops but I think it’s valid.
Is Robert mueller a cop?
At what point from cop to detective to admin are they bastards?
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My thing about the institution kind of answers this. It’s a vertically controlled entity, as in you’re answerable in a quasi-military chain of command. This creates strong incentive for lateral support within the institution, and limits oversight from outside the institution. Combine this with the legitimate deployment of physical violence and coercion by members of the institution and you’ve got a problem.
This means that there aren’t bastards and non-bastards in some essential way, but rather that people who work in police departments are structurally predisposed to back bad actors and turn a blind eye towards bad practices. For some people, that might translate to “fuck yeah ITS NIGHTSTICK TIME” at every opportunity, for others it might create a grinding sense of unease that surfaces as depression or anxiety.
So the problem isn’t the instutional culture, it’s the bureaucratic and regulatory structure. The pretense that the problems of policing are at root a bad apple problem misses the point: you have to either give people sanction for violence OR give them relative institutional autonomy, but never both.
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Well, yeah. Before he was a hero to the #RESISTANCE, he was a Republican, Boy Scout head of the FBI, who made his name arresting mentally ill Muslim teenagers who his agents catfished into “joining” al-Qaeda
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i like to take things on a case by case basis
Some of my favorite movie characters were cops
sure, but movies aren’t real
bikes are real
Isn’t the crux of ACAB that no, obviously not all individual cops are bastards, and many are non-racist people who make good judgments, but the overarching structure of law enforcement creates a situation where any civilians need to assume that ACAB for their own safety?
All Bikes Are Cool
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Pretty sure one of the As in ACAB stands for “all” and the dictionary definition of that is googleable