I think Andrew Coster has been a excellent police comissioner. Being described as a wokester by Soiymun Brudges should be regarded as a compliment. I want my police force to act with strength when needed but with humility and compassion as well. Policing by consent is a necessary component of any modern police force. National are bully boy blusterous fools. They operate on reckons and dog whistle, evidence based practice for National is simply not in their lexicon.
The transition of the upper echelons of the police from a more authoritarian to a more managerial style is entirely in line with the general shift in politics from propertied class vs working class to propertied class vs (or maybe that should be '&') managerial class. In the 'olden days' there was no ambiguity as to the role of the police- as protectors of private property they were clearly aligned with the proprietors, and since the organisation is authoritarian and self-replicating by nature, this changed very little, even as 'traditional' labour parties became more prominent, since, for reasons of parliamentary credibility, they could not be seen to be encroaching on the autonomy of the police. The advent of New Labour with it's 'Professional Managerialism'- itself an attempt at consensus-building- allowed experimentation with a new style of consensus policing. Since the parties of the Right remain very much the parties of the propertied class, it is hardly surprising that the floggers of the law-and-order brigade want a return to the skull-cracking class adversarialism of old-style policing.
🧐Is Don "free speech" Brash aware of the "Streisand effect"? Very few knew about the podcast until he decided to sue and now it has been elevated on the radar - or is that his intention as in "all publicity is good publicity" for the likes of him? 🤔
I think Andrew Coster has been a excellent police comissioner. Being described as a wokester by Soiymun Brudges should be regarded as a compliment. I want my police force to act with strength when needed but with humility and compassion as well. Policing by consent is a necessary component of any modern police force. National are bully boy blusterous fools. They operate on reckons and dog whistle, evidence based practice for National is simply not in their lexicon.
The transition of the upper echelons of the police from a more authoritarian to a more managerial style is entirely in line with the general shift in politics from propertied class vs working class to propertied class vs (or maybe that should be '&') managerial class. In the 'olden days' there was no ambiguity as to the role of the police- as protectors of private property they were clearly aligned with the proprietors, and since the organisation is authoritarian and self-replicating by nature, this changed very little, even as 'traditional' labour parties became more prominent, since, for reasons of parliamentary credibility, they could not be seen to be encroaching on the autonomy of the police. The advent of New Labour with it's 'Professional Managerialism'- itself an attempt at consensus-building- allowed experimentation with a new style of consensus policing. Since the parties of the Right remain very much the parties of the propertied class, it is hardly surprising that the floggers of the law-and-order brigade want a return to the skull-cracking class adversarialism of old-style policing.
🧐Is Don "free speech" Brash aware of the "Streisand effect"? Very few knew about the podcast until he decided to sue and now it has been elevated on the radar - or is that his intention as in "all publicity is good publicity" for the likes of him? 🤔