“Before the Badge” examines how academy training reinforces biases rather than teaching understanding
When I got my first car, I had a habit of driving too fast, resulting in quite a few speeding tickets. One day, after receiving another ticket, I complained to my father, “Cops are assholes!” It wasn’t a new or nuanced assessment, but he countered, “No, assholes are cops.” The notion that certain kinds of people go into certain kinds of work stuck with me. It plays out all over the spectrum of employment — who do you envision working in a hedge fund office? A daycare? A cafe? ...