Three fellow Minneapolis police officers looked on as Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. Now many departments are setting higher expectations for officers who witness misconduct. MPRnews
Aronie said it applies scholarship about the “bystander effect,” which focuses on people’s unwillingness to intervene in situations, and applies that to the culture of policing by giving officers practical tools to intervene, and then normalizing that officers are expected to intervene.
Addressing the “blue wall of silence,” which critics blame for police officers’ unwillingness to criticize one another, isn’t the goal of the EPIC program, Aronie said. Neither is it a program designed to get officers to inform on their colleagues. “The idea is kind of absurd that loyalty means, ‘I will cover for you no matter what,’” Aronie said. “But what loyalty now has come to mean in New Orleans is, ‘I’m going to keep you out of trouble whether you like it or not.’”
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