Genuinely had no idea that Alberta leads the country for police shootings. That alone would be good for thought. Thank you for drawing attention to this Alberta reality. Forewarned is forearmed when it comes to human rights and how policing affects them.
This makes me remember reading this case study a while back that talked about police arrest quotas and how they have the potential to be gamified and therefore damage the trust with the community.
More cops means more funding, which could lead to setting unrealistic arrest goals or enforcement quotas to justify that funding.
This in turn has the potential to put immense pressure on officers to meet those numbers and resort to malfeasance to meet their quotas. Stuff like fabricating reasons to arrest people or issue unfair tickets.
People who feel safe do not support increasing police budgets. It's the unsafe feeling that results in funding increases. And so it goes...police have to maintain a certain level of unsafe feelings to keep their budgets growing.
This is the exact same playbook that national defence departments use to bump up their funding every year. If there's a budget or a committee hearing coming up, cue the media releases.
You've got me thinking about the headlines we'd like to see...
* Province triples funding for after school sports and rec
* Police budget hike diverted to community food cupboards, new co-ops
* Police mandated to pour 10% of staffing this year, 15% next into community beat cops
...that's just my thimbleful of knowledge on crime prevention, channeled from friends who know that space a lot better.
No doubt to be followed by...
Provincial drug czar slags government as highly-paid position declared redundant
Genuinely had no idea that Alberta leads the country for police shootings. That alone would be good for thought. Thank you for drawing attention to this Alberta reality. Forewarned is forearmed when it comes to human rights and how policing affects them.
This makes me remember reading this case study a while back that talked about police arrest quotas and how they have the potential to be gamified and therefore damage the trust with the community.
More cops means more funding, which could lead to setting unrealistic arrest goals or enforcement quotas to justify that funding.
This in turn has the potential to put immense pressure on officers to meet those numbers and resort to malfeasance to meet their quotas. Stuff like fabricating reasons to arrest people or issue unfair tickets.
Hope it never comes to that though.
People who feel safe do not support increasing police budgets. It's the unsafe feeling that results in funding increases. And so it goes...police have to maintain a certain level of unsafe feelings to keep their budgets growing.
This is the exact same playbook that national defence departments use to bump up their funding every year. If there's a budget or a committee hearing coming up, cue the media releases.
You've got me thinking about the headlines we'd like to see...
* Province triples funding for after school sports and rec
* Police budget hike diverted to community food cupboards, new co-ops
* Police mandated to pour 10% of staffing this year, 15% next into community beat cops
...that's just my thimbleful of knowledge on crime prevention, channeled from friends who know that space a lot better.
"Police funding reduced, crime decreases after drug decriminalization." Oh, there are so many better ways to make people feel safer.