Police Monoculture
A deadly lack of imagination
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4 min readOct 21, 2020
Why is the problem so intractable? Eric Garner was asphyxiated in 2014 and George Floyd was asphyxiated in 2020. Can’t the police learn from their mistakes? It doesn’t much appear that they can.
What if the problem is systemic and is rooted in the militarization of the police alongside long-held and nationwide policies of recruitment and training? That it…
