Why Do Police Abuse the People They Serve?
We might ask who taught them to be abusive.
I can understand why some people might want to “defund the police”. I think we could do better, and I’m not sure that defunding the police will help. I think we could retrain the police. I also think we could get them into parenting classes, relationship classes, and gun safety classes. That could help to stem the temptation for abuse. A recent study suggests that police are not only abusive on the job. They can be abusive at home. From Yahoo Life June, 2020:
Research, slightly outdated and skewed by a culture of silence and intimidation, suggest that police officers in the United States perpetrate acts of domestic violence at roughly 15 times the rate of the general population. Because officers protect their own, domestic victims of violent cops often don’t know where to go. Sometimes they reach out to Alex Roslin, author of Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence, the American Society of Journalists and Authors-award winning book that constitutes perhaps the only major work on this subject.
That article highlights the work of Alex Roslin, author of “Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence”, which is probably the only major work on this subject. Roslin says a major study found that 40% of police officers…
