Good. I don’t support security theater.
The antivirus is only updated once every 12 months, using discounted old licenses bought from eBay.
Am I hating antivirus? Are we better for saying the servers are secured?
No. The “civilian oversight” is a security blanket that has not demonstrated effectiveness.
It’s better to have a flawed system but with well understood flaws; than a new theoretically good one with unknown flaws.
This is the assumption people are making on this thread but no one has demonstrated how or if they are effective.
I am not necessarily against civilian oversight but unless a civilian oversight board has the power to strip qualified immunity from an officer , it seems to me that it would be a pointless exercise.
I think a more effective oversight would be eliminating automatic qualified immunity in favor of qualified immunity being earned after an incident. A cop that has to justify their action creates a level of self oversight. Also I feel like it might help curb what I believe is the real problem we see in policing today…it attracts way too many people who have a “bully” personality type.
Literally every person/kid I knew growing up who I would have characterized as a bully at some point looked to law enforcement as a career.
Nothing is more potentially dangerous than an organization which claims that they have a 3rd party oversight system, so they can be trusted, with this claim then being taken at face value.
It's why referees in pro sports are on their way out.
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