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What do you think of an app that lets people review their interactions with police officers?
Assume the obvious issues are worked out in a good faith effort to allow the system to perform the function it was designed for.
We have a problem the system is not solving. I have seen it more than once myself, including the worst behavior I have ever seen from police officers. False charges, witness intimidation, false testimony under oath, the whole dirty bit. Left my friend with two felony assaults on police officers. There is a "bullyboy" culture in police departments all over the country. There's lots of reasons for this and all.parties bear some responsibility.
But the truth of the matter is that most cops are OK. They perform their jobs professionally and courteously. They take abuse no barista ever endured without splitting a single skull. Some are actually pretty cool sometimes.
So if the departments and the cities and their respective lawyers and the police unions and their lobbyist's simply aren't going to allow anything to be done about it on the government side, perhaps it's time for a social media solution.
I think this is actually a great idea and I hope somebody does it. I am lazy and easily distracted.
A well designed system like this could reward cops who do a good job being cops, provide alerts for cops who might ruin your day by writing every ticket you deserve but still not talk to you like you are scum, and flag cops who really need to be dealt with before they kill somebody and piss off a big chunk of the country to the people who are supposed to deal with them.
What do you think?
Assume the obvious issues are worked out in a good faith effort to allow the system to perform the function it was designed for.
We have a problem the system is not solving. I have seen it more than once myself, including the worst behavior I have ever seen from police officers. False charges, witness intimidation, false testimony under oath, the whole dirty bit. Left my friend with two felony assaults on police officers. There is a "bullyboy" culture in police departments all over the country. There's lots of reasons for this and all.parties bear some responsibility.
But the truth of the matter is that most cops are OK. They perform their jobs professionally and courteously. They take abuse no barista ever endured without splitting a single skull. Some are actually pretty cool sometimes.
So if the departments and the cities and their respective lawyers and the police unions and their lobbyist's simply aren't going to allow anything to be done about it on the government side, perhaps it's time for a social media solution.
I think this is actually a great idea and I hope somebody does it. I am lazy and easily distracted.
A well designed system like this could reward cops who do a good job being cops, provide alerts for cops who might ruin your day by writing every ticket you deserve but still not talk to you like you are scum, and flag cops who really need to be dealt with before they kill somebody and piss off a big chunk of the country to the people who are supposed to deal with them.
What do you think?