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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. And the academic ones. And Tyler could do better. ? LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. I agree with all of that, except for your discreet attempt to defend Tyler Cowen’s talking point, which I still think is misleading in all the wrong ways. And also except for your suggestion that academic conversations are …

In reply to mlyoung57. I just read it. I think there’s a lot of truth to it, and it tends to reinforce my view that transparency in both college CJ departments and police academies will go some of the way toward undoing this culture. Again, this …

In reply to sean samis. It may be true that my comments are a function of my experiences in New Jersey, which probably is not typical of the country as a whole. New Jersey is a blue state led by a Democratic governor and progressive Attorney General. I…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks for that comment, Irfan. Lots of good stuff there. From my own experience, I agree with you about progress. The police (and really the entire city government) in Providence has gone from corrupt/thuggish to pretty good…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Did you see this? I think this guy is wrong and ideological about a lot of things here, but what he has to say (however exaggerated) about “cop culture” and “police academy culture” strikes me as on-ta…

Irfan; I have to say you are the only person I’m aware of saying that we’ve been making significant progress; but you are also the only one I know from New Jersey. I watch the news (probably too much) and what I see is a general systemic failure in Law…