Part of that can be chalked up to the "blue line" of silence, the unwritten rule that says cops shouldn't snitch on other cops, but part of that blame lies with weak civilian oversight, timid grand juries, and a generalized societal respect for police that does none of us any favors.
Some studies have reported on CoPs and their broad impact on systems where CoPs were part of a multi-faceted intervention [ 32- 36].
Lies from a lowlife facing hard time are viewed by most cops as part of the natural order, as common as snow in the Arctic or the surf in the Caribbean.
As Kennedy told me, "I saw law enforcement believing plausible but untrue things about the communities they police" — namely, that the communities were corrupt and didn't care about the violence that was destroying them — "and the communities believing untrue things about the police" — namely, that the cops were part of a racist conspiracy to lock up black offenders while overlooking white ones.
He shares the view that the community policing model introduced under Livingstone has been eroded under Johnson: "I spent a day with Islington cops as part of my campaign including a couple of hours on the beat with the guy who had been a dedicated ward officer, who now has four or five wards allocated to him.
Within a few days, the interim police chief, Brian Manley, would advance another theory: a home a few doors down from House's one that looked very similar, with a very similar-looking car parked outside had been raided by cops as part of a drug investigation a few days before the explosion.
Activists say cops are part of this problem.
The cops are part of a larger, systemic problem, Lee told me.
There's a lot of things that went into lowering the crime, but arming the cops was part of it.
That's not good for my kids," her ex-boyfriend told the cops, after part of his wall was removed to dislodge his ex from his chimney.
