Having the police live in the same neighborhoods that they police has a danger. The likelihood of corruption or favoritism increases. However, having them be a part of the community, but serving in the next district over would be the better alternative. /1
There must be a balance of engagement and direct involvement with diverse cultures and groups. Otherwise the mentality of “otherness” is allowed to grow and fester. /3
When you apply a metric to try and measure progress to a goal, the metric becomes the goal. “Data-informed” policing policies set quotas for police to measure their performance. This causes a perverse incentive to meet a metric and not achieve whatever the original goal was.
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Who let the Merchant Guild into the Halls of Power? They keep pulling the Money lever and have now broken the facking handle.
A lot of people have been questioning why the federal goverment of the U.S. is using a “free market” solution to distribute emergency supplies. The problem is the ideology of “running government like a business” aka “The Business Plot”. Here’s a thread about why this fails/1
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This is not to absolve them of their mismanagement and lack of actual leadership. In fact, it is damning and shows how much they have “failed upwards” into positions of power./11