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@ 2018-05-03 16:04:00

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"One recent Saturday night, two drunk men sitting in a park waved Skinner over. One of the men was trying to console his friend Kenneth, whose girlfriend had kicked him out and taken away his car keys. Suddenly, Kenneth stood up and reached for Skinner, to embrace him. Skinner hugged back.

A few minutes later, Skinner described the scene to an officer-in-training. She was aghast. At the police academy, cops are trained how to position their bodies when interacting with members of the public—one shoulder forward, gun hip always out of reach.

“I know—I lost tactical advantage,” Skinner told her.

“Yeah!” the trainee said.

Skinner smiled. “I’m not looking for tactical,” he said. “I’m looking for strategic.” ♦

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-came-home


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2018-05-04 20:41 (saite)
The plates cost him more than five hundred dollars—a week’s salary.
...
Police officers are increasingly filling the gaps of a broken state.


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