To be clear, I’m not saying that this uniformly exists, anywhere, and police forces certainly cancel/do commit arbitrary violence, but the idea, compared to what we had before, is pretty damn sound
To be clear, I’m not saying that this uniformly exists, anywhere, and police forces certainly cancel/do commit arbitrary violence, but the idea, compared to what we had before, is pretty damn sound
I mean, the Peelian principles of policing are actually pretty good!* The problem is, very few police departments have actually *followed* them! *The ones introduced with the first police force in 1830.
policing is a lot like communism - the idea was invented in the 1800s and everything since then has been a continuous failure of implementation :p