LAW & ORDER – WHERE DID THE CONCEPT OF POLICING COME FROM?

A long read but some clear insights into how policing came to be what it is today. “Johnson’s Great Society essentially ended when he asked Congress to pass the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which had the effect of diverting money from social programs to policing. This magazine called it “a piece of demagoguery devised out of malevolence and enacted in hysteria.” So “defund the police” is call to return to the day when America was great – when it valued social programs over punishment and control.

The Chinatown Squad

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police?utm_source=facebook&mbid=social_facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&fbclid=IwAR2BhCM2xvGbLb92oJyrCYQUs5_Nsb_pbO3DtW09wlE7YTY2QZnwK-xQRcg

 

DEFUNDING THE POLICE INCLUDES DEFUNDING THE JAILS

“The vast majority of rapists never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone get convicted and end up in prison. In fact, they end up becoming president. So the system you feel so attached to and that you seem invested in preserving is not delivering what you say you want, which is presumably safety and an end to violence. Worse than that it is causing inordinate additional harm. The logics of policing and prisons are not actually addressing the systemic causes and roots of violence.”

https://theconversation.com/lets-close-the-thunder-bay-jail-and-build-a-better-society-141963

 

Top Canadian Police Association Says It’s Time To Decriminalize All Drugs

An enlightened approach. This is what is meant by “defunding the police.” “Merely arresting individuals for simple possession of illicit drugs has proven to be ineffective. Research from other countries who have boldly chosen to take a health rather than an enforcement-based approach to problematic drug use have demonstrated positive results.”

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/top-canadian-police-association-says-its-time-to-decriminalize-all-drugs/

 

FEDERAL GUIDANCE IN THE RESUMPTION OF JURY TRIALS

I have yet to understand how there can be ANY social distancing in returning to crowded open to the public courthouses and courtrooms, especially those locations where ventilation (HVAC) risk assessment experts did not actually physically access the buildings because of COVID-19. Hope that you don’t get called for jury duty.

https://www.ccohs.ca/images/products/pandemiccovid19/pdf/courts-jury-selection.pdf