Whether police brutality is the result of incompetence, the ridiculous "feared for my life" justification, racially authoritarian psychology, or a mix of all three, it's truly amazing how destructive US policing is. Police involvement is strictly harmful.
https://twitter.com/TheoKeith/status/1381655822787346435
A big indictment of poli sci, econ, and political economy is the 1970s-1990s studies of the "runaway bureaucracy", which was more concerned about excessive use of state authority by, like, OSHA, and not police. It's pretty embarrassing. Glad the disciplines are changing.
For many, the only face of the state they will ever interact with is local cartel gang that occupies their community and can just murder you with impunity if you don't immediately kiss their boots (or even if you do!).
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Scholars of democracy ignored that the US was some kind of 'competitive authoritarian' 'illiberal democracy' mixed type because of these roving authoritarian cartels. Scholars of bureaucracy were more concerned about inefficient occupational licensing & a "runaway" FTC. Amazing.
I learned this when my family friend was murdered by police last year while unarmed. You can't do shit about it! It's like appealing to a narcotrafficking cartel. It's just not accountable to any civilian authority.
This is an unaccountable cartel gang that has established its own authority outside of democratic institutions by force, and celebrates its impunity from all forms of civilian accountability. Unbelievable that these gangs persist. Real failed state status
https://twitter.com/AndrewMannix/status/1381658210378088448?s=20
Americans watching the show Narcos like "yeah but here we actually directly pay the cartels with taxes and make their murders not just informally allowed, but formally legal and celebrated"
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