MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Serpico on Police Racism: ‘We Have This Virus Among Us’
By artappraiser on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 8:43pm |Made it out alive and he's still alive!
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/11/george-floyd-protests-serpico-police-racism-good-cop/
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Excellent interview. The guy may not be the only honest (former) cop in NY, but he unfortunately still has far too little company. His "the code of the blue wall of silence" is more strict than the Mafia is telling.
by NCD on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 1:23am
Police do not want to be held accountable. For police to be satisfied, you have to accept police abuse. When six Baltimore police officers were charged after the death of Freddie Gray, the police response to calls slowed down. After officers were charged in Atlanta, there is a suggestion that the police response time increased. The unions always back officers. I don't know how this will be resolved, but I see police.I think that police will viewed as an occupying force rather than protectors by a significant number of people in some communities.
Note that the mayor of Atlanta got a historic wage hike for Atlanta officers, and if the reports of the slowdown are true, they still abandoned her because the DA brought charges against "fellow" officers.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 8:02am
The Atlanta police work slowdown action is a very interesting situation as far as "what to do to reform police?" I ran across some items on that last night that were very thought provoking.
ESPECIALLY THIS:
So you can forget about arguing the "powerful union" thing when it comes to them. (And it also comes to mind: what's good for the goose is good for the gander..if one doesn't want powerful police unions, maybe teachers and social workers shouldn't have them either? Taxpayer, the employer, should have the ultimate power? That's exactly what Dorothy Roberts is arguing on another news thread I posted. It's a not a big gov. Dem argument, it's just the opposite, it's a libertarian argument--don't send your social working people into my house to tell me how to raise my kids. Next thing you know, it will be "don't make my kids learn from your curriculum")
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 1:59pm
There is also this immediate problem one can often have when one attacks the thin blue line, he wrote for Daily Beast
Can Probing Broken Police Departments Have Deadly Consequences?
RATIONAL TO RETREAT?
In five cities where police were investigated by the feds after high-profile killings of African-Americans, many more people were murdered in the years that followed.
The question would be: are those deaths worth it for what you are trying to do with reform? Is there a smarter way to go about it without letting the crime rate go wack? I.E.
That Atlanta PD are very successful at this one metric:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 2:10pm
Here's on the Atlanta slowdown--
Here's what the mayor said. She is sympathetic:
from news radio reporter
Maybe, just maybe, all police departments shouldn't be judged equally evil as Serpico suggests?
Maybe Atlanta does mostly have it's police act together, doesn't have a strong police union and the Rayshard Brooks shooting was really a one bad apple situation?
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 2:15pm
Detectives investigate and determine how and where to arrest serial killers, not beat cops. In Atlanta, beat cops arrest guys who fall asleep in their parked car and then kill them when they panic and run, and their blue wall buddies think it's ok.
If the Atlanta police Union is 1/5 as ethical and popular with cops as that in NYC or Minneapolis, it shouldn't just lack power (does it lack power?) it should be disbanded.
by NCD on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 4:13pm