Essential Higher Learning PODCAST: 1/2017 - Post #1579

[DEAD7]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cr6utb86ngsnd6lk4ktkgl1m1m4

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[Liu Kang]

Correct.
We'll do a roll call, or something of that nature next cast.

You guys could simply have the same avis you have on here.

 

[Digga38]

You guys could simply have the same avis you have on here.

done

 

[88m3]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ven&utm_term=artsculture&utm_content=20150429

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/u..._id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

Interview with producer of The Wire
http://www.vice.com/read/david-simo...ore-police-went-wrong-429?utm_source=vicefbus

 

[Serious]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ven&utm_term=artsculture&utm_content=20150429

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/u..._id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

Interview with producer of The Wire
http://www.vice.com/read/david-simo...ore-police-went-wrong-429?utm_source=vicefbus

Had a feeling a david simon's take on this was coming. He only produced 5 seasons of a show about this issue.

 

[Serious]

Because the drug war made cops lazy and less competent?How do you reward cops? Two ways: promotion and cash. That's what rewards a cop. If you want to pay overtime pay for having police fill the jails with loitering arrests or simple drug possession or failure to yield, if you want to spend your municipal treasure rewarding that, well the cop who's going to court seven or eight days a month—and court is always overtime pay—you're going to damn near double your salary every month. On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he's made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it's time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy's only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work?

 

[88m3]

interview is wild

 

[Serious]

interview is wild

Yeah it just confirms what we already know. This probably the most telling part of the interview...

So do you see how this ends or how it begins to turn around?We end the drug war. I know I sound like a broken record, but we end the fukking drug war. The drug war gives everybody permission to do anything. It gives cops permission to stop anybody, to go in anyone's pockets, to manufacture any lie when they get to district court. You sit in the district court in Baltimore and you hear, 'Your Honor, he was walking out of the alley and I saw him lift up the glassine bag and tap it lightly.' No fukking dope fiend in Baltimore has ever walked out of an alley displaying a glassine bag for all the world to see. But it keeps happening over and over in the Western District court. The drug war gives everybody permission. And if it were draconian and we were fixing anything that would be one thing, but it's draconian and it's a disaster

 

[OsO]

15 minutes until showtime

 

[Serious]

 

[88m3]

 

[tmonster]

too many quotables in that article
it's a must read

 

[tmonster]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ven&utm_term=artsculture&utm_content=20150429

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/u..._id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

Interview with producer of The Wire
http://www.vice.com/read/david-simo...ore-police-went-wrong-429?utm_source=vicefbus

that article

 

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