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In reply to the discussion: police reform ideas anybody? [View all]Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)I watch some of these cases and think, if I were assigned to deal with these cases, "Yeah, so, my vacation in Barbados starts that week. If you want to assign anyone else . . ."
I see someone like Chauvin, for example, and I couldn't unpack that one even if it were a two week cruise.
Part of the job is to read people really well. It's more art than science. It requires a lot of empathy. I was a really good social worker because I could read people and situations very quickly. You get a sense for it.
So, seeing what I have seen of Chauvin, there's a deep lack of empathy. He genuinely believes he did nothing wrong. And his justifications are piled higher than Babel. You'll never convince him he did wrong. When he's convicted, he's going to blame politics for it. And he'll do so in an unironic racist way, I imagine.
Then there's the Daunte Wright case. It was so obviously a fuck up, the officer was so clearly horrified. It pisses me off a bit to see people really pressing that she did it on purpose. It's so obviously not.
It's important we set the monsters aside from the fools.