POST:The Comedians Who Train Cops
POST is an agency within the California Department of Justice. The acronym, POST, is an abbreviation for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. It may be all of of that, but it is more than that, for it is a pillar in the perpetuation of prejudice. It is also, by law, the critical vehicle through which changes to police training, adopted or adapted from lessons learned, from data-collection, will be implemented. They have a cute phrase to describe it. They will be "informed by data" or something that sounds like that (even as they preside over or ignore the manufacture of false data.) But even now, and for 12-20 years, POST has been an instructor and purveyor of prejudice; it is a propagandist. It must be brought to heel. How? I have no answer but shall try to find one. The California Department of Justice; the parent of POST, is a Law Enforcement Agency. Its head, the California Attorney General is the State's top cop. Even so, or despite this fac