How to Monitor Your Local Police

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

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[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

Keep wondering what would have happened if Nixon had not decided to remove the police in favor of the highway patrol.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

What's striking is the us vs. them mentality so quickly adopted by these police. Their total loss of focus on actual public servanthood.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I still believe it has a lot to do with the tremendous number of former and current (reserves) military men who join the police force. They're trained for combat, and that's all they know, and the police don't train them any differently.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

I can see that - there's no change from their point of view. But for us, it's a big change. Their own people become their combat target.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And that's what's made the police so extraordinarily dangerous. But the changes in Ferguson yesterday were tremendous. Changing the police force to more black officers, for example. There have been only peaceful protests ever since. But I'm not holding out hope. The one person in charge of the investigation of the death is saying the mayor and governor were out of line pulling out the all-white police force and replacing them--even though it was obviously the best decision made. Unfortunately, that doesn't bode well for the investigation, and I fear what will happen once that man concludes the investigation and announces his results.