Until now, everything I have been writing about is on the supply-side. I want to think next about how to reduce demand for policing. How elastic is demand for policing? Why did 311 systems fail? What other substitutes are feasible? Can a (small) co-pay system reduce demand? I'm open to other ideas of course!
My next assignment for you is to develop a list of citizen / justice systems contacts in which the citizens enjoy some agency and count those. Score jury trials as a positive good instead of an expensive nuisance; participation in sentinel event reviews as a contribution, restorative justice and other collaborative and endeavors in which citizens (and residents) exercise some power.....
That would be an interesting project. I do think that one of the externalities of the approach I wrote about is that it would lead to more neutral interactions than occur today. Police officers are taught to control situations and since people in general report low satisfaction when they are 'controlled' it means the modal level of satisfaction after a police interaction is very poor. If half of those interactions were with someone whose first responsibility was something other than controlling the interaction, that would have positive spillovers.
Ah. If only the discourse had taken this turn at the beginning. But now, I'd be interested to see you follow through the implications of drug de-criminalization for the contact approach, and with an eye on not just the number, but the particular nature and distribution of the iatrogenic harms that enforcement by criminal justice contacts generates.
What do the politicians like to say, that their position on decriminalization is evolving? I think decriminalization is step 2, after addressing the lowest hanging fruit. Why the Biden administration doesn't grab the populist mantle and go full force for marijuana legalization is a complete mystery to me. There's no data, but I would bet 2/3rd of the 5.7 million vehicle passenger contacts are a police officer smelling marijuana in the car. It's such an easy win in reducing coercion costs, reducing disparities, and being more just...
After the revolution, what's the plan?
Until now, everything I have been writing about is on the supply-side. I want to think next about how to reduce demand for policing. How elastic is demand for policing? Why did 311 systems fail? What other substitutes are feasible? Can a (small) co-pay system reduce demand? I'm open to other ideas of course!
My next assignment for you is to develop a list of citizen / justice systems contacts in which the citizens enjoy some agency and count those. Score jury trials as a positive good instead of an expensive nuisance; participation in sentinel event reviews as a contribution, restorative justice and other collaborative and endeavors in which citizens (and residents) exercise some power.....
That would be an interesting project. I do think that one of the externalities of the approach I wrote about is that it would lead to more neutral interactions than occur today. Police officers are taught to control situations and since people in general report low satisfaction when they are 'controlled' it means the modal level of satisfaction after a police interaction is very poor. If half of those interactions were with someone whose first responsibility was something other than controlling the interaction, that would have positive spillovers.
Ah. If only the discourse had taken this turn at the beginning. But now, I'd be interested to see you follow through the implications of drug de-criminalization for the contact approach, and with an eye on not just the number, but the particular nature and distribution of the iatrogenic harms that enforcement by criminal justice contacts generates.
What do the politicians like to say, that their position on decriminalization is evolving? I think decriminalization is step 2, after addressing the lowest hanging fruit. Why the Biden administration doesn't grab the populist mantle and go full force for marijuana legalization is a complete mystery to me. There's no data, but I would bet 2/3rd of the 5.7 million vehicle passenger contacts are a police officer smelling marijuana in the car. It's such an easy win in reducing coercion costs, reducing disparities, and being more just...