According to David M. Kennedy, one of the nation\u2019s leading criminologists, American policing is practiced more as a craft than as a profession. \u201cThe kind of thinking that should go into framing and refining what a profession of public safety should be has still not been done,\u201d he told me. Officers are deployed as enforcers of the state, without being taught psychology, anthropology, sociology, community dynamics, local history, or criminology. Lethal force is prioritized above other options\u2026<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no training on how to de-escalate tense scenarios in which no crime has been committed, even though the majority of police calls fall into that category\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is how situations go so, so badly\u2014yet justifiably, legally,\u201d Skinner said. Police officers often encounter people during the worst moments of their lives, and Skinner believes that his role is partly to resolve trouble and partly to prevent people from crossing the line from what he calls \u201cnear-crime\u201d into \u201cactual crime.\u201d The goal, he said, is \u201cto slow things down, using the power of human interaction more than the power of the state.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A hundred years from now half the cops will have psych degrees and we\u2019ll look back on today like a horror show. (the movie “Bright” is not actually science fiction.) update may 2, 2018 Ben Taub: According to David M. Kennedy, one of the nation\u2019s leading criminologists, American policing is practiced more as a craft…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}