FukNuggitt wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
Antarctica wrote:
The "enhanced training" is just going to feature a bunch of connected city contractors getting giant consulting gigs to stage workshops and seminars that the cops blow off and dont take seriously. The police by-and-large know what does and doesn't get them in trouble but there is a colossal problem in that all it takes is one of the over one million police officers in America to fuck up once on camera for people to go into a full scale riot.
I don't think they do know techniques that get them in trouble. It seems that in tense situations they fall back on some outdated methods. Updated training will result in those moments when they rely on muscle memory to remember better mehtods. Anyway, most licensed professions require continuing education. There is nothing wrong with a yearly update on policing.
I do agree that classes from instructors in the community just screams corruption for the relative of an alderman. However, you have to try. There is a uniqueness to policing neighborhoods in Chicago and not just african american neighborhoods. Chinatown demands different methods than Pilsen or Canaryville, even though the often blend physically
I think you spend more time and money educating the youth in underprivileged areas. As I posted here from Kevin Hart's interview with Joe Rogan, much of what keeps underprivileged youth from achieving things as easily is not just the money they don't have at the moment, it is the guidance. Provide programs that provide such guidance if it is lacking, and you are working on the foundation from the ground-up.
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At one time we did this in this country and then somewhere around the Reagan era a lot of this sort of thing stopped. The narrative changed about helping disadvantaged people even though those programs were proven to have worked. The poverty rate in this country dropped tremendously as a result of those programs yet all people ever heard was that they were a failure.
Now everyone is bellyaching about the kids "destroying their own community". What community? They own nothing. Their parents own nothing and the people that do own the businesses in those communities do not even live in them.
We can continue to only look at the failings of the people that were looting or we can look at what led them to loot. If we continue to ignore some of the factors that led them to loot because after all "the stock market had a great day" then we shouldn't whine once this happens again.
This isn't to absolve them of anything and I will be the first one to say lock them up if they're captured. They deserve to be locked up for committing a crime. However if the conditions which existed prior to this are allowed to continue, then this will happen again.
We as a country cannot continue to feed the poor shit in this country and convince them that they are getting a healthy meal.
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This is going to reach a head pretty soon.
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Well hes definitely legit then
