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Hiring people from a sociology/social justice background would just mean the same abuses of power, but different targets.

Policing has gone in this direction in the UK, and now you have mothers being arrested in front of their children after “misgendering” someone online: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scotto...

> St Albans Magistrates’ Court found her guilty, under the Communications Act (2003), of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety”.

Fortunately, she eventually won on appeal and her conviction was overturned, but the process itself was the punishment.

Police need less power, not more sociology degrees.




Americans are normally the ones to myopically reduce the world's issues to their own, but sometimes the British are not to be bested!


I’m an American aware of how this idea has played out elsewhere.


That sounds more like a problem with the law than with the police.


Policing isn’t independent of the law or legal culture, and police have enormous discretion in how they choose to apply the law.

There’s also the entire issue of “non-criminal bias incidents”:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/columnists/5238...




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