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Originally Posted by finnbow
Inner-city crime and the police's response to it. What problem were you talking about?
I'm pretty skeptical of the whole cottage industry that has grown up around boiler-plate corporate/government training programs. Technical training in one's career field is one thing, the cultural touchy-feeling stuff quite another.
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OK, when you define the problem as broadly as that, of course you're going to sniff at someone touting training the police to have a better attitude. And I can't say that isn't the 'title' topic of this thread. But I think noonereal and I were focusing on 'shooting innocents and using unreasonable force' at this point.
But actually, you're right. The police are what the society they work in makes them. It's wrong to think all we need to do is 'fix the police.'
That isn't to say no fixing necessary, but too narrow a focus will fail. What made the situation what it is now will keep making it, if there are not more global changes.