This is counter intuitive, but I think completely correct. Someone is going to be given the power to enforce order and we want the best, most relaxed someones possible.
By the same token, militarizing police in organizational (rather than cosplay) terms would probably be an improvement. A professional management corps that's largely not built by promoting from within (so that above the rank of sergeant, you don't really have a shared culture with beat cops) and having the norm be that beat cops don't stay in the police for a long time would be a start.
I absolutely agree with this. In MA, where I taught, all construction sites were required to have a "detail" (a police car parked with lights flashing.) Not really necessary, as other states showed. The one public policy article criticizing this netted the author anonymous death threats because officers had become addicted to the money. Classically they slept in these cars. Still, no family life. The sergeant -schedulers at the station would get angry if officers didn't sign up to do this in many cases.
This is counter intuitive, but I think completely correct. Someone is going to be given the power to enforce order and we want the best, most relaxed someones possible.
By the same token, militarizing police in organizational (rather than cosplay) terms would probably be an improvement. A professional management corps that's largely not built by promoting from within (so that above the rank of sergeant, you don't really have a shared culture with beat cops) and having the norm be that beat cops don't stay in the police for a long time would be a start.
That’s an interesting idea
I absolutely agree with this. In MA, where I taught, all construction sites were required to have a "detail" (a police car parked with lights flashing.) Not really necessary, as other states showed. The one public policy article criticizing this netted the author anonymous death threats because officers had become addicted to the money. Classically they slept in these cars. Still, no family life. The sergeant -schedulers at the station would get angry if officers didn't sign up to do this in many cases.