'History has demonstrated police satisfaction to be unreachable, if not downright illusory, and placating cops endlessly is a recipe for continuing to reward them for making us mad.' zakcheneyrice writes
NYPD officers. Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images A couple of weeks ago, I was on the phone with a lawyer in Atlanta for a story about mayoral politics here. Policing has become the issue in the upcoming mayor’s race, and early last month, the City Council green-lit a plan for a new $90 million training site for cops and first responders.
The pitiable psychic condition of America’s cops was supposedly brought on by the bad rap they got last summer, after one of them got caught on video killing a man, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck in Minneapolis while his colleagues just watched. It got worse after a bunch of other cops in other cities used batons, rubber bullets, and tear gas to rough up people who protested in the streets because they weren’t happy about Floyd’s murder.
This discrepancy in labor data is just one way the popular narrative and reality aren’t adding up. Maybe the biggest is the idea that we’re dealing with a new problem, stemming from the fallout from Floyd’s murder, and one that can be resolved in a way that makes cops happy and democratically accountable at the same time.
So we find ourselves in a conundrum: Many Americans are unhappy with the job cops are doing, and our media and political organs are telling us we should give the cops more money and perks to make them feel better about us saying so. Federal lawmakers are tripping over themselves to prove which party is more cop-friendly.
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