jencarroll.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist. Rig slinger. Drug/overdose research. Harm reduction collaborator. πΊπΈ/πΊπ¦ Opinions my own.
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Fear of being perceived...rising.....rising...
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Sometimes they can be upsetting to be around.
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Ha. Also my feelings were really about the results of the test but more about how obvious it was to my frontal loan that my brain stem desperately wanted to be praised for doing well on the test. Like, I felt very much like a pigeon in a Skinner box despite my best efforts at emotional Independence
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But if you respond to your neurodivergence-fueled morning paralysis by buying delicious breakfast burritos for yourself everyday, you can FEEL rich.
Also there's a reason why our group got along so smoothly in high school. I'm starting to wonder if I actually know any allistic people.
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Get ready for your inner gifted and talented child who seeks validation through academic success to get way over invested in the IQ test. I had feelings about that shit for days.
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Weird! Lemme see if s can post it again
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17/ Next week we're reading a critical response to Kelling and Moore that really (REALLY) takes them to task for glossing over the issue of race in their historical analysis. It's called "The Evolving Strategy of Police: A Minority View"
You can read it here:
www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ni...
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16/ And all this matters because both police and civilians regularly buy into this mythology and incorporate it into their norms, values, and morals. This will have major consequences when we start discussing the intangible risks of police participating in scientific research.
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15/ but the big takeaways are:
1) Policing isn't concrete. It has changed with politics and public opinion over time.
2) We think of parts of policing as "normal" (911, DARE) because they were marketed to us by the police. The circular logic is "you need us, we need this, you need us to have this."
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14/Though this takes place long after the article was written in 1988, some people now consider the "Homeland Security Era" (starting on 9/11) to be the historical era of policing that we are in today. But the residues and legacies of all these old policing strategies can still be seen everywhere.
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13/ Side note: Lest you think I am just a cranky bitch who hates drug edu programs (I am, and I do, but there is more to it), here's a slide I sometimes use when speaking. D.A.R.E. at best had no impact, at worse increased substance use among kids and (later, as adults) decreased treatment. IT BAD.
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12/ The WoD continues to be marketed, but now, police are targeting Black ppl AND volunteering in schools, because the WoD propaganda has warped our minds to the point where the idea that crime law enf professionals naturally make good heath educators made sense. (they really really don't)
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11/ All these troubles gave way to the "Community Policing" era in the 1980s (alongside Broken Windows theory) and saw police taking on more community-involved roles. 911 is demarketed (now emergencies only). Neighborhood watches form. Police are supposed to see citizens as partners.
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10/ Former Nixon council John Erlichman told Harper's Magazine in 2016 that they concocted the WoD and many of its most pernicious myths for the express purpose of criminalizing [anti-war] hippies and Black people. He doesn't mince words. That's literally what he said.
harpers.org/archive/2016...
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9/ The War on Drugs is still in the room with us. The civ rights and anti-war movements did not sway all of the US public (don't forget MLK was called a domestic terrorist when he was alive) but they were the biggest threats to the legitimacy of police and "law & order" policies. Nixon knew this.
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8/ Hold onto your pearls everyone. Those strategies don't actually work. Research emerged in the 1970s proving as much. Also crime escalated in the 1960s despite these strategies being in use. Also the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement seriously challenged the legitimacy of the police.
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7/ This is also the era when regular car patrols and 911 emerged. Like most police things, they emerged b/c they were sold to the public as effective crime prevention strategies b/c police sold THEMSELVES as crime prevention. The public was convinced thru marketing they needed these things.
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6/ In the Reform Era, the US public CANNOT EVEN with the political role of police. Changes are made to legitimize police as law enforcement agents independent of electeds. They limit the role to crime prevention and response. I love this quote from the article explaining this shift:
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5/ In the political era, police serve under the patronage of politicians. They do crime stuff but also social stuff (soup kitchens, migrant housing). Officers are hired from within the communities they police. Rampant corruption, violence, racism, cronyism, also soup I guess?
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4/ They define what they see as 3 historical stages of US policing, each defined by very different jobs and roles for the police (because there is no "natural" or "ideal" police role. It's ALL ideological).
Political Era 1840s-1920/30s
Reform Era 1930s-1970s
Community Prob Solving Era 1980s-?