As Karl Bickel, a senior policy analyst with the Justice Departments Community Policing Services office, observes, police across America are being trained in a way that emphasizes force and aggression. He notes that recruit training favors a stress-based regimen thats modeled on military boot camp rather than on the more relaxed academic setting a minority of police departments still employ. The result, he suggests, is young officers who believe policing is about kicking ass rather than working with the community to make neighborhoods safer. Or as comedian Bill Maher reminded officers recently: The words on your car, ‘protect and serve, refer to us, not you.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:30:00 +0000
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