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Radley Balko -- once a reporter at libertarian website Reason, now at the Washington Post -- has owned this beat for over a decade now. Read Rise of the Warrior Cop if you're interested in learning more.
There's actually an entire book written on the subject.
I can't remember what the statistic is, but, I want to say it was something like 90% of the "terrorists" that have been arrested have been FBI setups. So, pretty much only ten percent are real.
You're making some assumptions that aren't warranted. I'm going to assume you are discussing training like that in the US. There is no training to neglect their humanity. The training does two primary things in regards to mental frameworks. It instills discipline to follow orders, and begins to develop reaction patterns so soldiers can react instinctively rather than stopping to think about what to do (the time delay can easily mean the difference between life and death). It is their humanity generally that cause them to fight. There can be many influences, but often the most influential is fighting to protect the other members of their unit to whom they've bonded.
Many soldiers experience a psychological cost from combat. One of the most influential works on the subject that may answer some of your questions is "On Killing: The Pyschological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" by Dave Grossman.
I agree. However decriminalization is only a half measure unfortunately. Sure it's a good starting point because people need to be treated instead of punished but decrim only addresses some of the issues. Full legalization of all drugs will allow drug users to be safe through regulation and research. It will also significantly decrease gang violence and reduce police budgets required in order to keep track of these gangs distributing these drugs, which those monies saved could be applied elsewhere in the budget (just think about how much is spent to control drugs).
I know it seems radical to legalize but I urge you to read Dr. Carl Hart's book called Drug Use for Grown Ups. Dr. Carl Hart was the former Chair of Psychology Dept at Columbia and now leads research at Columbia on illicit drugs. He has now come out as a frequent heroin user (insufflation not injection) and argues that all recreational drugs can not only be safe to use but do actually have some positive attributes. Again I know it seems radical but I urge you to read his book or purchase the audio book version.
Consider this: most drug overdoses happen because either the drug user was not taking the drug they believed to have purchased because it had additives in it (such as fentanyl in heroin) or because they were uneducated on taking a depressant (such as alcohol or a benzodiazepine) with an opioid (such as heroin or pain medication). These combinations are deadly because it slows body functions down to a critical level.
If we accept that there will always be drug users and that we will never eradicate drug use, then we need to make it legal for people to buy these drugs safely through regulation, education and research.
I accept all the downvotes ha. Again, I realize how this can be viewed as counterintuitive to solving the opioid crisis but I believe in the long run it will lead to a healthier society.
What your asking for is pretty much force on force training. The most well know of these classes is Craig Douglas Shivworks ECQC classes.
I would also reccomend looking into Varg Freeborn. I don't think he's teaching classes at the moment, but his book "Violence of Mind" is a good look at the self defense mindset/orientation.
There is a Columbia professor who is arguing for legalizing all drugs, including heroin.
https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Use-Grown-Ups-Chasing-Liberty-ebook/dp/B088QLTSQN
I don't agree with his argument, but I do think there is a good argument for broader decriminalization.
Remember the show Luke Cage? There was that horrible prison guard, Albert Rakham. Sure, a correctional officer isn't a cop, but they look and act alike and there are certain obvious similarities.
Anyway, I couldn't help but notice that in the comics, Rakham looked like Officer Wiggum of The Simpsons. In the show, they made him look more like a poster of one of Hitler's fit, blonde brownshirts. Character looked totally different from the 70's version.
I mentioned that to a friend and she said, "Well, I guess the writers read the book Rise of the Warrior Cop." X-D
Yeah I'm 100% with you if you're advocating police reform, however if you are arguing that there should be no police at all then I couldn't disagree more with you. Lack of policing in general has a complete historical precedence of explosions in crime and violence.
I would recommend reading Ghettoside by Jill Leovy. It's written by a reporter who embeds herself in Watts and attempts to explain the proliferation in violence in African American communities. One of the subjects she explores is what happened during the hundred or so years when racist cops in the south refused to police crimes that happened to black people. Hint: it's not good.
> Isn't that stuff basically meth?
Granted, meth is actually pretty safe in normal doses. According to Dr. Carl Hart (who admits to using meth regularly and safely... I think around 20mg with no issues) the toothless meth addicts in the streets apparently use 10x-20x the recommended dose.
2-FMA, MDMA, Adderall are all related to meth, but has less social stigma because it's done by wealthier individuals.
I would recommend Ghettoside by Jill Leovy. She did comprehensive reporting on this.
Aside from that, there are numerous examples of crime being allowed to proliferate within the ghettos. Here's some particularly horrible reading about crimes against women (which were the most common as far as I can tell).
And yes, I think we could all agree that it would be amazing if people just never wanted to commit crimes, but that has never happened in all of human existence. It would probably be a good idea to use that historical precedence.
I'd highly recommend this book if you want to see actual data (plus lots of fun anecdotes) from an addiction researcher who came to find that most of what we've been taught about so-called hard drugs is false.
https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Use-Grown-Ups-Chasing-Liberty-ebook/dp/B088QLTSQN
There is a really interesting book about the ways that low income communities are under policed and the consequences:
https://www.amazon.com/Ghettoside-True-Story-Murder-America-ebook/dp/B0062OCN4E
Ooh, also check out "You Have the Right to Remain Innocent". Amazing (terrifying) book in the subject. (Non-affiliate) link below...
https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Innocent-ebook/dp/B01DAD218W/ref=sr_1_1
Worth reading this book if that's your mentality https://smile.amazon.com/Violence-Mind-Training-Preparation-Extreme-ebook/dp/B07BGJFD7L?sa-no-redirect=1
Check out the book Violence of Mind. It has some really great insights in the end about including family with youd planning, but also keeping it separate enough to not be causing undue stress. My wife doesn't like to shoot anything more than the .22's when we go out, and she gets too stressed out talking about the more intense stuff, but she is also a huge safety nerd so she is all about having a proper preparedness plan.
(And for those who prefer reading, You have the right to remain innocent!)
Can someone file a lawsuit or a "stay of order" or whatever it's called, against texas DOT?
Link them to https://www.instagram.com/segregation_by_design/, start firing off affidavits. Scare them!
also a good read, regarding changing big institutions: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
> The police don't receive the witness cooperation they need to clear shootings in the high crime areas though, even victims seldom cooperate with investigations
The police sure caught the South St guys quickly! Perhaps they were especially motivated to solve that crime?
And I'm sure that searching random black men on the street and arresting the ones that are carrying a gun because they feel they will be murdered if they don't have it will help with that problem! It's not like we've been doing that for 40 years now
> The ideal compromise would probably be ratcheting up gun searches and prosecutions, but minimizing the punishments
the police are already complaining that krasner is not harshly punishing gun arrests enough
> If you live in a high crime area, it benefits your in the aggregate to be searched because everyone else is also being searched, thus increasing your safety too
does it increase your safety? Again, this has been standard practice for literally decades - peoples reaction to it has been "I, a law abiding person, am getting constantly hassled by the same police who are ignoring the fact that murderers are walking around scott free because the police basically don't care when a black guy shoots another black guy"
Highly recommend reading the book Ghettoside - this is the same overpolicing small crimes and underpolicing major crimes that has destroyed police-community relationships and failed to deal with crime on top of it
He also wrote a book where he goes into details.
Turns out its a bit more complex than just "shutting the fuck up"
He said that there are only two questions you should answer when approached by the police.
1) “What is your name?” 2) “What are you doing right here, right now?”
Keep it in the present tense. Don’t tell them what you were doing earlier in the day, what you plan to do afterward, or offer up any additional information.
Source: Chapter 1 of his book. <em>You Have the Right to Remain Innocent</em>.
He said that there are only two questions you should answer when approached by the police.
1) “What is your name?” 2) “What are you doing right here, right now?”
Keep it in the present tense which means you don’t tell them what you were doing earlier in the day, what you plan to do afterward, or offer up any additional information.
Source: Chapter 1 of his book. <em>You Have the Right to Remain Innocent</em>.
https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Use-Grown-Ups-Chasing-Liberty-ebook/dp/B088QLTSQN
Those drugs are more tenuous to have a responsible relationship with but it's not impossible. The guy that wrote this book is a professor that does both of those responsibly.
Most of my family is from rural KY and meth/heroin has riddled all of their communities.
Read a book sometime -- This is a really good one and entertaining - https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0
It's pretty objectively bad -- https://www.healthy-ky.org/res/images/resources/KHIP-heroin-and-meth-FINAL.pdf
Being able to blend in is not about not upsetting the sheep. It's about staying hidden from the true hunters, not just the predators. There are smart predators out there, those are the ones I;m most concerned about.
Check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Mind-Training-Preparation-Extreme-ebook/dp/B07BGJFD7L/ref=zg_bs_159860011_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=M70G6WKEWG8EW4ENCS4S
So, reading Dreamland, I was really struck by how multifaceted the opioid crisis is. At least the impression that I got from that book, it seemed like it really started with a perfect storm of pharmaceutical salesmanship, legislation, people not double checking the underlying research, moralization of addiction, a proliferation of unscrupulous pain clinics, and heroin starting to come in from Mexico.
With all those other factors, I'm kinda surprised to see CVS and Walgreens as being places to lay blame. And, reading the comment from kombinacja, it doesn't sound like there's a lot there that they could do differently.
You have so much to research about drug use and it's effects on the body before you can even begin to answer this question. You need to passively absorb some of the huge amounts of information that are out there if you want to understand what's going on.
For some information and an argument in favor, you could try reading Dr. Carl Hart's book https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Use-Grown-Ups-Chasing-Liberty-ebook/dp/B088QLTSQN
"If drugs/chemicals are fatal" What?
If you want to read about the epidemic of murder and gun violence, and the deeply inadequate police response to it, I highly recommend the book Ghettoside
I highly recommend reading the book Ghettoside, which looked deeply into the problem of murder and gun violence in places like this (the book focuses on South-Central LA but is applicable everywhere in America). Basically, there's so little trust in the police, and the police historically haven't put much effort into actually solving murders, that lots of people would prefer to take justice into their own hands. Why tell the police and potentially get branded a snitch, when you can go and shoot the guy who shot you (or his brother, cousin, friend) and get revenge yourself
The book follows two stories - in one, a LAPD officer's son is killed in that kind of shooting, and it juxtaposes the resources that case got with an average case. In the other, it profiles an LAPD detective who actually puts in the work to solve cases - and basically reveals that who committed these crimes isn't a secret, they often aren't hard to investigate, but too many cops don't put in the work, the Department doesn't put money into crime solving, and the locals just don't trust the police or think that giving information will do anything but paint a target on theirback
The disparities maybe show that some people/communities snitch while others don't (even if they are rivals).
Reminds me of some comments months ago that quoted from Ghettoside(I think), where some police mention that they think or are convinced that some people have committed crimes like assault and murder. However, these crimes are not solvable since the victims and the community at large will not snitch, testify, etc.
So, they try to get these criminals on drug charges. Possession of drugs / drug dealing / drug trafficking etc. Often, the police are pretty convinced they are involved in the murders in the community too, but these more objective crimes (you either have the drugs or not) are the easiest way to locking these guys up.