Despite a growing consensus that police are asked to do too much, arguments for devolving many law enforcement responsibilities to civilian agencies rely “on a faulty understanding of the police role,” according to a recent paper published in Criminal Justice Ethics.
“Police are a residual institution, charged with managing the crises that other institutions cannot handle adequately on their own, and it is not easy to reassign that work to anyone else,” writes David Thacher, the paper’s author and … Read the rest