In a new book, the former New York City police officer lays out the systemic problems with law enforcement. As a cop, I know exactly what he means.
I am thinking about quitting my job as a local cop. I don’t know the when but I do know the why. Many of the reasons can be found in the pages of Edwin Raymond’s “Raymond has lived a life so different from mine that for us to end up with the same conclusions proves that the problem with policing is systemic.
“An Inconvenient Cop” is structured so the reader sees where Raymond came from, where he hoped to go and where he ended up, at least for now. Of Haitian background, Raymond grew up in east Brooklyn. His home life was exceedingly difficult; he suddenly lost his mother to cancer and then slowly lost his father to despair and drift. He came of age in the New York of the 1990s, when the crime rate dropped dramatically and there was no shortage of people eager to sell the “one reason” why.
Raymond saw, as many cops do, that the point should have been to prevent the minor crimes through “officer presence” — officers out and about, interacting with people as needed but not hassling them, all the while being visible and alert. But preventing crimes doesn’t produce overtime, and it doesn’t produce crime-fighting statistics; and, Raymond notes again and again, the NYPD was not just influenced by these statistics but was fully driven by them.
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