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brownredgreen t1_ivfhciv wrote

Reply to comment by user_joined_just_now in Left Unmonitored In His Cell, He Etched His Suicide Note Into a Wall On Rikers Island by hau5keeping

Now show me the stats on cops committing crimes but the cops wont arrest and charge and/or the DA wont prosecute so they dont show up on crime stats.

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user_joined_just_now t1_ivfld20 wrote

I'm sure it's a huge issue, but like you said, we need to address the root causes of cops committing crime by providing them with more social services and housing.

After all, punitive justice is NOT the solution to crime!

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brownredgreen t1_ivfoeko wrote

Education.

Cops need education.

Maybe like, on the laws they supposedly enforce.

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omgwtfbbq7 t1_ivg1me6 wrote

There’s more to it than even that. You have to make law enforcement an attractive career to get people who are well adjusted and empathetic to consider it. I don’t know what all that entails, but more work needs to be done to figure that out. You also need people in the profession that are capable of absorbing education. For the most part, I don’t think that is the case as it stands today. There’s so many cultural factors about policing as well. It’s really naive to think more education is the answer. There’s so much more to it than that.

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