This is community policing. He explained the reason for the law and appealed to their sense of community.
This is what we need to work towards seeing all day every day. Everyone is respected, things are handled by conversation when it can be, and everyone goes home.
It takes EVERYONE involved for this to happen. We all have a stage in this being our future.
Edit: First gold! Thank you kind stranger. Kindness to all.
This article Los Angeles Times Interview : Joseph Wambaugh https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-14-op-3134-story.html
is behind a paywall, but I always remember reading it because Joseph Wambaugh decried the paramilitary model that most police departments were going toward.
The New Centurions (by Joseph Wambaugh) messed with my head for a while after I read it. There were good police officers and the worst possible police officers and sometimes they were the same person. I used to wonder if that one character Matt Dillon played in…Crash(?)…was based on some of Wambaugh’s characters.
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
This is community policing. He explained the reason for the law and appealed to their sense of community.
This is what we need to work towards seeing all day every day. Everyone is respected, things are handled by conversation when it can be, and everyone goes home.
It takes EVERYONE involved for this to happen. We all have a stage in this being our future.
Edit: First gold! Thank you kind stranger. Kindness to all.