Public order and disorder
Forget the silly copycat virtue signalling on the streets of London – I think this was merely our exuberant minority having a post-lockdown knees-up – but the riots in the US really do point to an endogenous problem in American policing. A comment to the post below reminded us that the opposite to love is not hate but indifference. It was indifference that gave us Bergen-Belsen and the casual murderous brutality of the Nazis; they simply didn’t care enough even to feed or keep alive their victims. The worst crime in the eyes of these beasts was not to be Jewish or Communist but to be inconvenient. This I think is also the problem at the heart of US police violence – indifference.
Many aspects of the US are counter-intuitive. I love this map -
It shows the predominant ethnic origin of each county and the most common is … German. Apart from Utah and the old states of the NE coast, the English are nowhere. So prevalent was German culture in the US that on the eve of the Great War, the country was ambivalent as to which side to support. This has nothing to do with the seats of the riots, the major conflagrations in LA, NY, Chicago, Atlanta and of course Minneapolis, but I throw it out as an explainer of a cultural difference between the UK and US that we sometimes cannot quite understand.
We have of course no equivalent of the National Guard either. The ease with which the US has used these armed citizens in the past decades, including for those who recall it the shooting dead of 13 students at Kent State University in 1970, is also utterly alien to British culture.
Our own most recent riots in 2011 proved the efficacy of the country’s mass surveillance systems. Some 1,292 persons were jailed for a total of 1,800 years. This at least must prove some sort of disincentive to the anarchic inciters, even if it also poses civil liberties concerns for the rest of us.
David Lammy may be happy to be seen trying to start this disorder in the UK, but we really are very different nations.
Source: http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2020/06/public-order-and-disorder.html
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