As public review of police has grown, we have not seen any movement towards organizational improvement by police departments. What we rather see is blatant resistance towards even the shadow of the idea that police should be better than what they are.
But what strikes me more is how oblivious they are to the tools of their own downfall. They don't seem to care, in general terms, about what footage of their crimes means to the public. Sure, we see individual police turning off bodycams or DAS suppressing the release of footage, but there's a frankly astonishing amount of instances where the footage is recorded and released with the expectation that the public will be fine with it.
And that's because police in this country have operated without oversight or consequences for so long that they have this mindset that no harm will ever come to them. And, for most of history, they have been correct. That mindset is deeply ingrained into the training every cop gets. They are above the law. So they are careless.
What happens when they finally adapt? When they, as a whole, realize that the court of public opinion is not a battle they can win? Will they change their ways then, to operate WITH the people as opposed to AGAINST them?
Nerevar1924 t1_j9tmyk7 wrote
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Don't give them any ideas.
As public review of police has grown, we have not seen any movement towards organizational improvement by police departments. What we rather see is blatant resistance towards even the shadow of the idea that police should be better than what they are.
But what strikes me more is how oblivious they are to the tools of their own downfall. They don't seem to care, in general terms, about what footage of their crimes means to the public. Sure, we see individual police turning off bodycams or DAS suppressing the release of footage, but there's a frankly astonishing amount of instances where the footage is recorded and released with the expectation that the public will be fine with it.
And that's because police in this country have operated without oversight or consequences for so long that they have this mindset that no harm will ever come to them. And, for most of history, they have been correct. That mindset is deeply ingrained into the training every cop gets. They are above the law. So they are careless.
What happens when they finally adapt? When they, as a whole, realize that the court of public opinion is not a battle they can win? Will they change their ways then, to operate WITH the people as opposed to AGAINST them?
I doubt it.