>He discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues.
Drug dogs are an end run around probable cause (as the article states). Modern policing is rotten to the core and needs to be abolished. An entirely different system needs to replace it, a system more focused on helping people instead of terrorizing the vulnerable.
I have no idea why this was downvoted. Lots of people have made livings showing illegal arrests, illegal searches, police lying (which is legal but a crime the other way around), coerced false confessions, and police brutality on YouTube because there's just so much damn material. It's right out of 1984. Here's one of many channels on the subject:
All this is emboldened by the drug war. If it wasn't for that, most of these police departments would be well overstaffed (if they aren't considered that already). The US justice system is a farce.
As technology oriented website users, I think it's likely most of us are familiar with Joel Spolsky's advice to never do a big rewrite [0].
Regardless of the faults of current policing practices, the fact is that they represent centuries of judicial, legislative, and social work by many thousands of individuals. It is dishonest and absurd to believe that such a system can be adequately replaced by "something new I dunno lol". Cultures and traditions embody solutions to problems you don't know exist. "Cultural revolutions" have always and everywhere exposed the gaping wounds of the past and revived ancient problems that were once solved.
The difficult and tedious work of persistent mutations and small improvements is historically the most reliable method to improve the lot of humanity. But it's not as exciting or sexy as "burn it all down" rhetoric, and people do want to get laid.
>Regardless of the faults of current policing practices, the fact is that they represent centuries of judicial, legislative, and social work by many thousands of individuals.
>But it's not as exciting or sexy as "burn it all down" rhetoric
He stated "modern policing," which I would guess is since the 1980s and the drug war, then 9/11. All this is fairly new, and started within my lifetime. This is "normal" to the younger generation, but it's horrifies me.
Some simple fixes that don't require "burning it to the ground," but would in fact abolish modern policing:
1. Abolish qualified immunity.
2. Civil forfeiture requires burden of proof on the state.
3. Require at least the military's rules of engagement, police rules are very lax. (I'm scared, BANG BANG).
4. Require body cams and remove ability to turn them or the microphone off. (sensitive info can be removed on FOIA, but not court cases).
5. Prosecute prosecutors for gross prosecutorial misconduct resulting in a wrongful conviction (withholding exonerating evidence).
6. Disallow drug dog alerts as evidence of a crime. (this has more than been disproven as reliable.)
7. Require states to provide equal funding for the public defender's office as they do the district attorney's office. (fair representation).
8. Require all police departments be 100% funded by their municipality rather than self funding (ticket quotas, pre-textual stops w/ civil forfeiture).
9. National police certification. This keeps away the bad "gypsy" cops that get fired / resign for gross misconduct from being hired elsewhere.
10. Successful lawsuits against the city for police misconduct get taken out of the police budget.
There are probably more, but those should "abolish modern policing." A civilization has to have a pretty ironclad faith in their legal system, otherwise everything will collapse.
> He stated "modern policing," which I would guess is since the 1980s and the drug war, then 9/11. All this is fairly new, and started within my lifetime. This is "normal" to the younger generation, but it's horrifies me.
Yup, the US incarceration rate started rising to these insane current day levels around the 1980s [0]
Interestingly enough, the incarceration rate kept rising even while crime was going down, but crime going down wasn't a US exclusive phenomena, Canada saw the same trend without mass incarcerating people. [1]
Reasonable suggestions, I think you are probably correct.
I do believe that the zeitgeist that wants to abolish or defund the police does genuinely mean that they do not want the police to exist in any capacity. They mean abolish in the sense that the asylum system was abolished.
>I do believe that the zeitgeist that wants to abolish or defund the police does genuinely mean that they do not want the police to exist in any capacity.
I think that idea / narrative makes it easy to circumvent any reasonable discussion on the topic in the political / media sphere.
I think we're nearly at a critical point, if not already. The police were so brazen to beat up and gas news people covering protests, while being filmed doing it.
I'm not a big fan of Vox, but here's a fairly comprehensive article (with video) of what went on.
Putting on my cynical hat, I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of police K9 handlers (the ones who understand animal training and are capable of this) intentionally train their dogs to alert to some surreptitious signal (in addition to drugs). That way they can get "probable cause" to search whenever they want to, without having the dog alert 100% of the time.
>He discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues.
Drug dogs are an end run around probable cause (as the article states). Modern policing is rotten to the core and needs to be abolished. An entirely different system needs to replace it, a system more focused on helping people instead of terrorizing the vulnerable.