How society addresses the creeping militarization of our local police is both timely as well as critical to advancing past what ails our country at the moment.īalko reports on criminal justice and civil liberties for the Washington Post and he knows his stuff on this front. The idea of police being that positively engaged with the community seems Rockwellian and made me want to read Radley Balko’s new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop, to better understand whatever happened to “officer friendly”. Upon discovering the prank, the good-natured cops had the kids pile into the black and white cruiser and headed to a nearby gas station where they taught them all the basics of auto maintenance. A friend who grew up in Ballard in the 1950s told me of a time when as a kid he was caught letting the air out of the tires of a patrol car, while his buddies chatted with the local police officers who sat inside.
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