I don't trust the police. I don't know that they are any more corrupt than anyone else, but the potential for damage due to any corruption is much higher than in most jobs due to their power. What I'd like to see a police culture where doing the right thing and obeying the law (that is, the police obeying the law) is more important than covering up for a fellow officer. Badge cameras have been shown to help immensely and I particularly distrust any officer who thinks they are a bad idea
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I also think it might be necessary to change the culture of prosecutors - too many people get arrested by police, and then further abused by the system once they are in it… (as I hear about from lawyers who have done pro-bono defense work).
For me, and I suspect for a number of other people as well, police presence in my life has been the sort of thing where the state is enforcing an abuser's inappropriate control over my life and person. There is no possible change to the Somerville police department that's going to make that history feel better. :(
I'm surprised. Do people think there is specifically an issue with Somerville police? The few times I've seen them in action they seemed pretty reasonable, including one time when a member of the public was ranting at an officer in an unreasonable (IMO) fashion.
To meander in a different direction -- how about "know your local cops"? I don't think I know any of them even on sight, nevermind by name, and given that Mudflat shares a building with a police substation, I've no excuse for that at all. I'm not sure if I have enough fake extrovert skills to pull that off.
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I'm not sure if I have enough fake extrovert skills to pull that off.
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