Jack Dunphy: The Price of Timidity in Police Work

Police officers seeking to advance within their departments know the next promotion can be scuttled by even a whiff of controversy.

If you are among those still perplexed by the failure of the police in Uvalde, Tex., to respond decisively to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School, I may be able to help you understand how it may have happened.

I’ve been writing about this trend toward timidity in police work for years, and the trend seems to have accelerated since George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis two years ago. Police officers seeking to advance within their departments know the next promotion can be scuttled by even a whiff of controversy, so they conduct themselves so as to avoid any incident where things might go wrong.

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