eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (cyhmn)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2020-06-05

"For every 10 percent increase in the proportion of a police officer's peers with a history of misconduct (for instance, adding one allegedly misbehaving member to a group of 10), that officer's chances of engaging in misdeeds in the next three months rose by nearly 8 percent.

"'Given how frequently police officers are transferred to different units in response to bad behavior, this contagion effect is really important,' Mitchell says."

-- from "Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion" by Katherine J. Wu, 2019-05-27

eftychia: Photo of clouds shaped like an eye and arched eyebrow (sky-eye)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:37pm on 2020-06-05
Thinking of fearmongers warning of groups using "antifa-like tactics", & wondering how scary that sounds to folk who know antifa tactics include ferreting out fascists' identities to pass along to law enforcement, and turning fascist demonstrations into circuses of the absurd to deny them macho photo-ops. (And, of course, loudly telling fash they're not welcome, and getting in between groups of violence-minded neofascists & some of their targets.)

How very, um, civic-minded & not-terrorist. Scaaaaary, huh?

(Effectiveness is a completely different matter from scariness.)

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