Opinion: Defund Police? Let’s First Demystify It, By ‘Tope Oriola
The police are concerned with an empirical improbability — crime control. The idea thatis an established criminological fact. Nonetheless, police organisations soldier on. What can be reasonably expected of police is to keep crime to a level where social life can proceed with minimal unpredictability. That ensures, more often than not, most citizens will find their cars at the parking lot, although police cannot prevent or solve all cases of car theft.
many police agencies, community-oriented policing seems to represent a method of strategic buffering of a largely unaltered core police operationThe dramatisation extends to the level of risk encountered by police officers. Policing is presented as an uber-risky occupation. It is. However,in Canada and the U.S. If you have ever taken a taxi, the driver actually faces far more risks than police officers.
Policing is an unusual occupation, given its enormous power. This is precisely why it needs to be treated like any other job to ensure performance and end human rights abuses. Career-minded professionals should be recruited. Extremely patriotic, action-oriented warrior-like prospective recruits should be encouraged to join the military.Maintaining an adversarial relationship with the public is an “occupational tenet” of policing, as Manning pointed out decades ago.
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