Time for a Change of Tactics The Black Lives Matter movement has done wonders, but don’t rest on your laurels. The next step is the difficult one: fighting with the head, not the heart. It is much easier to attract support for an emotional demonstration against the system than to persuade people to use…
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Policing: Responsibility for Change
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#3 of a 3-Part Series A 180-Degree Change In the past two posts, we have discussed some basic objectives of policing and the problem with a society that assumes the major objective is punishment. Now we look at how to change this objective to our real need to protect the public. For this post, I’m…
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The Objectives of Policing Part 2: Our Punitive Society
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It’s no secret. Since medieval times, our society’s go-to technique for behavioural modification has been punishment. For example, in Victorian days children were seen as little adults, with all the sinful desire that comes with maturity. The solution was to beat it out of them. If a boy stuttered, he was considered to be…
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Hijacked!
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It’s an unfortunate part of the life of any social media crusade. Once the original idea gets out there and makes some progress, the jackals start circling, sniffing for their share of the blood. And what used to be a heartfelt plea for justice becomes a dead carcass, snarled and snapped over for the…