On 11/20/2011 2:20 AM, andrel wrote:
> On 19-11-2011 7:38, Darren New wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I think what you're seeing with the cops now has much longer been
>> the case with prison guards and such. I don't think anyone ever
>> considered prison guards to be kind and caring to those in their
>> institutions.
>>
> Is privatization also a piece of the puzzle?
> AFAIK some/many/all(?) prisons a run by private companies. The US also
> privatized part of the military operation in Iraq, which also did not
> contribute to the ethical behaviour of 'soldiers'.
> Are parts of the US police tasks also privatized nowadays?
>
The only "growth sector" in California during this depression has been 
private jails. The #1 place, other than the jails, to which money from 
this has gone as been into lobbying for more, and higher, mandatory jail 
time, even for minor offenses, in California. Arizona is pulling the 
same crap, with private prisons, and I am fairly sure its a trend in any 
number of other places too. So... You can take from that what you will.

As for the police... LA hasn't exactly had a huge positive association 
with "fair" or "uncorrupt" cops, and there is two reasons: 1. A lot of 
them are, and 2. Enough of them seem to be, even from the view of other 
cops, in other places, that it would be nearly impossible to replace all 
of them. How much of that is rumor, and how much truth, is uncertain, 
but there is a reason why phrases like, "driving while black" (and 
others), originated in LA, and its not because there are more slums 
there than in say Chicago, or NY.

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