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Originally Posted by Notorious Honey Badger
i said a police brutality "thing". of course its police brutality but i dont see this as a systemic police issue. this is the work of a sadistic lunatic.
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Ah, yes, a police brutality "thing." That makes perfect sense. Very succinct.
Here is an interesting paper done up by the RCMP on the causes and consequences of police brutality (and things):
http://publications.gc.ca/collection...4-27-2006E.pdf
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The notion of what has come to be known as the “bad apple” paradigm has often been used,
especially by senior police officers, as an easy way out when they are called upon to explain
corruption within their organization (Newburn, 1999:15; Kersten, 2000: 241). It is a simplistic
explanation that permits the organization and senior management to blame corruption on
individuals and individual faults – behavioural, psychological, background factors, and so on,
rather than addressing systemic factors.
[ . . . ]
The bad apple idea essentially sees police corruption as a moral failure or a defect of individuals
and hence it becomes treated as an administrative problem (Klockars et al., 2000:1). However,
this explanation is inadequate in terms of the reality of the organizational and occupational
culture of policing in contributing to the development and continuation of corruption(Klockars
et al., 2000:1; Kersten, 2000: 241).
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In other words, it is simplistic to think of these officers as being merely sadistic lunatics in a vaccuum, and ignoring the causes of their lunacy, which is in many times and in many ways attributable to their experience and role as a police officer.