From: J. W. Edser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This is a true story televised >by the ABC (Aust) prog "Australian >Story". > >In Australia, in a tiny outback town >called Wagga Wagga, a lone police >sergeant had a great idea. He wanted an >effective system to _prevent_ crime. Being >a "people person" Terry understood that >all the effects of crime are on _individual_ >people, not just impersonal groups of them, >even if the justice system had to be "impersonal" >in order to just. He thus convinced his colleagues >at the police station of Wagga Wagga to try a new >policing system he had worked out. He suggested >that the guilty individuals who had committed a >crime, and the people who had suffered from that >crime, could confront each other within an agreed >meeting. Here the criminal could see 1st hand what >he had caused, experiencing the emotions of >the victims, and the victims could then confront >1st hand the criminal and listen to the real reasons >for him/her committing that crime and what they now >think of what they had done. In Wagga Wagga crime rate >dropped dramatically by over 50% in a very short period. >Everything from petty shop lifting to murder was >treated the same way. It was different and more >difficult work not suited to all members of the >existing force, but it did produced great results. >However the brass hats within the NSW Aust police >force were just "not happy"... > >O'conner had upset NSW police "culture" entrenched >within a "solve the crimes committed" rather than >"prevent crimes from ever being committed" selective >mode. Spectacular arrests got more press than unspectacular >prevention's where police wanted a high press profile. >Police chiefs wanted more members with more power >and more money, not the opposite which a reduced >crime rate, just may produce. They could see, >what O'conner could not see, that large crime decreases >could lead to a decrease in many of these things, as >well as big changes to a cultivated "bully boy" macho image. >Australia does not have a huge crime problem. A mugging >in Sydney still makes front page news here. Terry O'Connor >was just ignored. However he pressed on with his idea. >He received a Churchill scholarship to study >outside of Australia. He worked and lived in the >UK for a while and was greatly respected. He ended >up touring the USA pressing on with what he termed, >"restorative policing" which has been implemented >there in some places. He remained rejected in Australia >but returned to work in NSW. He was grudgingly allowed >to set up a restorative policing unit within NSW. >It worked spectacularly. However, he was "not liked" and >was pressured to resigned his position. One month after >resigning the NSW police closed down his unit and everything >returned to the existing status quo. > >O'Connor was a victim of "group selection" >within a free society. Even though the police >are the paid guardians of the law, they only >had their own promotional and power interests >at heart. Only a predictable culture of arrests >and not prevention's was catered for within that >police culture. These police were a public funded >monopoly. Competition between police officers for >a "job well done" meant pleasing the brass >hats that run the monopoly and not necessarily >preventing any crime. The police "as a whole" >were rewarded or penalized, not individual >police working within the police force, so >you had to conform or get out. >This passed selection to the top Mandarins who >always suggested they were working for the >"publics best interests" when they were always >just working for "their own best interests" >sometimes against the public good because the >public could not deselect them. The power >of selection, via a "group selective ethic" >was moved from the consumer to the producer, >who then "fixed things up" to suit themselves. >If the consumer and producer, like any selectee >and selector are not separated then the process >of selection on the producer by the consumer, >simply cannot work. In fact Individual selection >was working here all the time but to only >entrench the status quo against productive >changes as the police selected themselves via >their own selective criterion, which meant in >the end a worse deal for all the tax payers. > > >This is not "group selection" at all, >where a group is actually selected, >just individual selection by "intent" >and not "by default", where "survival >of the fittest", or power as Mao said >"comes out the barrel of a gun". >Here "the gun" is used to reduce real >competition per individual person >and not increase it thus reducing >selective changs within an over >conservative system. > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >===== >to unsubscribe from hbe-l send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the following word the subject: unsubscribe >to subscribe, do the same with the subject: subscribe > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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