Change Doctrine: Police & Community (by Mutendei Writes, Guest Blogger)
(Photo: NYS) With so many cases to cite, it’s clear that the problem with society is not “law and order” but the people, who, by their own self-sanctified declarations, enforce “law and order.” This is true for multiple societies and communities in the United States of America, as well as Africa, with Kenya, being a specific focus for this point of discussion. The past month has seen so many incidences of police and prosecutorial misconduct (standard procedure) in the United States and Kenya (representative of power). A common counter argument of the guilty institutions has been the argument that the affected individuals became victims of the police and legal system because of bad parenting and lack of community accountability. This is why the credibility of the victims of systemic violence is always attacked first as opposed to the history of the perpetrators being revealed. Fair enough. LET’S KEEP THAT SAME ENERGY. The violent police and nefarious prosecutorial system are then equall...
