Opinion by Megan McArdle: A national training center for cops could be a place to research what works in policing, and to transmit that information to new generations of police.
, more than twice today’s rate, even though the population was 15 percent smaller. But cities today are still uncomfortably close to the position of cities in the 1960s, when rising crime coincided with a new technology — the automobile then, Zoom today — that made it easier for people to live and work outside the city limits. The result then was a doom loop in which crashing budgets made it even harder to provide acceptable levels of public safety.
of Floyd. Those of us who remain committed to the ideals of mass decarceration need to find creative ways to take the problem of crime as seriously as the problem of police abuse. So here’s my first attempt: America should create a West Point for cops.The reason the United States ended up with mass incarceration is that good logic created bad policy. The logic was that criminals respond to incentives. The policy was to tweak the incentives by issuing ever-harsher criminal sentences.
A West Point for cops could serve as a research center for learning what works in policing, and as a place to transmit that information to new generations of officers, who can be attracted to the profession through a combination of free, high-quality education and opportunities for elite public service.As a condition of receiving this education, recruits would promise to serve for eight years — as West Point officers do — on a major urban police force.
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