{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "You seem like someone to ask this: what's your take on community-oriented policing? I've heard good things and bad things.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/163433204943/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: You seem like someone to ask this: what's your take on community-oriented policing? I've heard good things and bad things.</div>\n<p>If properly run, like in the machine politics era where if a neighborhood cop trespassed against neighborhood norms a neighborhood patron would talk to his block captain/mafia contact and get the guy neighborhood fired?</p>\n\n<p>Then it works, better aligning the leviathan state with the societies it administers, by spanning the gap with what was known as \u201ccorruption\u201d, \u201corganized crime\u201d, etc.</p>\n\n<p>Short of that it\u2019s just PR flimflam</p>"}