A Systemic Approach To Policing Congress is about to look at the militarization of Policing in light of what we have seen in Missouri. Will Congress use a Systemic Approach in evaluating Policing in America? thehill/regulation/defense/215207-left-right-unify-behind-push-to-demilitarize-the-police · We Need A Systemic Examination of What Constitutes Effective Policing · Questions To Ask About Militarization of Police · How is the nature of policing connected with other aspects of community life? · What are all the issues/components involved in effective policing? · Does secrecy facilitate or get in the way of effective policing? · What alternatives are there in effective policing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of all the alternatives? What are the feedback effects of the different alternatives? What are the indirect effects of the different alternatives? What are the long term effects of the different strategies? · What fresh problems will be generated by our decisions with regard to policing? · Are effective policing strategies developed with an interdisciplinary approach? · Can we look at policing minus the PR? · Are current ideas about what constitutes good policing based on looking at policing separate from the Whole System of which it is a part? · Does our effective policing model make use of negative feedback? · Are our policing policies the result of “oversteering” rather than a self-regulation model? · Has our policing strategy fallen into the Darwinian trap of thinking faster, larger, stronger is always better, rather than choosing smarter/ju-jitsu model instead of boxing model? · Does our policing meet the Whole System Goal of enhancing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” among our people? · Is our policing missing the Whole Picture? · Our we considering in making decisions about our policing what is good in terms of the viability of our democratic way of life? · Does our policing make the right connections about what is truly important? · Do we evaluate our policing using qualitative concepts about the quality of our lives and it representing a consensus viewpoint? · Are we looking at the subsystem of policing in relation to our Whole System of Government and its relation to other subsystems in the Whole System? Or are we looking at it in isolation?
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