A good friend (and mothaeffin’ hero) of mine is on the new Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training committee that’s could soon be decertifying thousands of bastard cops in California. I’m looking forward to seeing what impact this has, but also quite seriously worry a bit that’s she’s on some hassle list kept by violence monopolists now.
I'm split. I had a people-control job as a psychiatric technician in a state hospital where we occasionally had way dangerous patients. Still, most of us restrained them (when needed) without hitting or punching or using sleeper holds. We had hospital police who spoke of "subduing" patients, but they never came on our ward. We were aware of some patient care staff who did secretly (or not secretly if it was a "goon" ward) hit patients. That's a disease, but it spread through some wards. I warned a guy who had the two-year psychiatric nursing course (California) but still tried to assault a patient that I'd better not see him do it again, and he threatened me with brass knuckles. We had a mixed bag working there. This was the 1970s. Now the wards are more female staffed, and staff gets hurt more. Patients can now turn down meds, and sometimes that's not a good thing-- although one might agree with it on civil libertarian grounds. I think the police deal with more dangerous situations and are spread out more. Civilians are likely to be armed sometimes. This is the tip of police paranoia and makes them dangerous. I do believe in PET (Psychiatric Emergency Teams) Teams and was on one briefly. Those COULD take the place of police calling on domestic disturbances and troubled individuals.
interesting. There is new data that suggests you are correct. All of the major US cities have had a decline in cops working. It’s not that cities are paying less for cops they are paying more to get less cops. If the rates hold until the end of the year.... this year will go down as the largest decrease in murder in history of record keeping. Across the board its down 21%...
I love how the excuse for police misconduct is always "a few bad apples" because the rest of the cliche is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch" meaning if you don't get rid of the bad apples, all the apples become bad. Like, literally what we're saying.
I am a gradual reformer to the depths of my soul, so I am looking forward to what you have to say!
We should think more about firing a large share of police and starting fresh. This was a big part of the reform of policing in Northern Ireland, although they called it early retirement buyouts.
A good friend (and mothaeffin’ hero) of mine is on the new Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training committee that’s could soon be decertifying thousands of bastard cops in California. I’m looking forward to seeing what impact this has, but also quite seriously worry a bit that’s she’s on some hassle list kept by violence monopolists now.
Keep us posted!
I'm split. I had a people-control job as a psychiatric technician in a state hospital where we occasionally had way dangerous patients. Still, most of us restrained them (when needed) without hitting or punching or using sleeper holds. We had hospital police who spoke of "subduing" patients, but they never came on our ward. We were aware of some patient care staff who did secretly (or not secretly if it was a "goon" ward) hit patients. That's a disease, but it spread through some wards. I warned a guy who had the two-year psychiatric nursing course (California) but still tried to assault a patient that I'd better not see him do it again, and he threatened me with brass knuckles. We had a mixed bag working there. This was the 1970s. Now the wards are more female staffed, and staff gets hurt more. Patients can now turn down meds, and sometimes that's not a good thing-- although one might agree with it on civil libertarian grounds. I think the police deal with more dangerous situations and are spread out more. Civilians are likely to be armed sometimes. This is the tip of police paranoia and makes them dangerous. I do believe in PET (Psychiatric Emergency Teams) Teams and was on one briefly. Those COULD take the place of police calling on domestic disturbances and troubled individuals.
I don't think certain patients should be allowed to turn down meds.
PET sounds like a really good idea.
interesting. There is new data that suggests you are correct. All of the major US cities have had a decline in cops working. It’s not that cities are paying less for cops they are paying more to get less cops. If the rates hold until the end of the year.... this year will go down as the largest decrease in murder in history of record keeping. Across the board its down 21%...
Wow, really? 21%?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p/contextualizing-the-largest-decline?r=4t6cg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
TYSM!
I love how the excuse for police misconduct is always "a few bad apples" because the rest of the cliche is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch" meaning if you don't get rid of the bad apples, all the apples become bad. Like, literally what we're saying.
I am a gradual reformer to the depths of my soul, so I am looking forward to what you have to say!
We should think more about firing a large share of police and starting fresh. This was a big part of the reform of policing in Northern Ireland, although they called it early retirement buyouts.
There was a city in the US that did that too to good effect
The campaign for this could call itself The Barrel Is Spoiled