Ferguson, r-Types, and Threat Response
This is the insanity of the Ferguson rioters: threaten them, and they will force you to fulfil your threat, to the detriment of both of you. They do not respond rationally.
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Profiling, Threat Assessement, and Prejudice
Threat assessment is a skill that everybody in the law enforcement industry learns to one degree or another. It’s a constant vigilance bordering on paranoia, where the back of your mind never stops examining the environment for any aberrations, even while your conscious mind is focused elsewhere.
The Power of the Shield
It’s hard being a cop these days. Part of me wants to be sympathetic. The Boys in Blue are expected to uphold Law and Order in a society that celebrates License and Orgy. On the one side, they’ve got the journalistic classes and the fattened masses, cowards and malcontents, who are utterly incapable of judging their actions. On the other, they have the Untermenschen, those half-tamed barbarians, egged on by debauched culture and lobbyists, who speak nothing but the language of violence. If the media starts yelling about “Excessive force,” it’s dollars-to-donuts that some degenerate was refusing to comply. But...
A Moral Imagination
So the other day I was talking with a friend of mine, who Just Happens To Be a Crown Prosecutor…. Now, those of you who show up here regularly will know that my relationship with the cops is Ambivalent, at best. It’s not that I don’t support Lawful Authority – I believe in the Righteousness of contracts, the inviolability of property, and serving your country like a Good Goddamned Soldier. I’m basically a Paladin with addiction ‘problems’. But when you get down to the particulars of the police forces in our society, I’ve got some major problems with how they...
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