Re:It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law
by Clubber on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:20AM
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>and a top-down change driven by politicians/ministers needs to happen.
I'm not sure if that is politically possible. The police unions start complaining when politicians start to do something (see when they turned their back on DeBlasio in front of news cameras). I'm not sure if it's fixable without repercussions on the offending officers or the union rather than the taxpayers. There is zero or near zero repercussions of the officers, the chain of command or the union for malfeasance. Of course they are going to act how they act, they're humans. The worst part is the bad officers often corrupt the good ones, or make them quit, so over time there's just the bad.
I'm not sure if that is politically possible. The police unions start complaining when politicians start to do something (see when they turned their back on DeBlasio in front of news cameras). I'm not sure if it's fixable without repercussions on the offending officers or the union rather than the taxpayers. There is zero or near zero repercussions of the officers, the chain of command or the union for malfeasance. Of course they are going to act how they act, they're humans. The worst part is the bad officers often corrupt the good ones, or make them quit, so over time there's just the bad.