The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Season 6 Episode 12: On January 7, the very cameras that law enforcement erected to capture and deter criminality, caught the very law enforcement, beating up Tyre Nichols, committing the crimes that they intend to capture and deter. But little did these officers know that they were being recorded. They had forgotten about the cameras. Thus, they would have done something else or done it elsewhere, but if it weren’t for the unseen eyes of technology, we would not have acquired the truth that has always been the modus operandi of police.
Therefore, if we are to prevent police brutality within a culture of violence, we may consider technology. The police officers who act outside of regulations do so because they know that they are not being watched and have the protection of their unions and a system that protects the purity of the batch. Police have a tendency of turning off their cameras. The ability to operate incognito provides an opportunity for them to disregard laws and abuse their power. But, if some people have power in society to enforce laws over others, and we know that power corrupts due to human nature, then it stands to reason that they must be scrutinized. They must be placed under tremendous surveillance and observation so as to ensure that they do not act outside of laws within the culture of violence and human fallenness. If we are to be resolute on stopping police violence and abuse of power, they must not have the ability to turn off their cameras and must be penalized if they do so. We must develop technology that keeps the police under surveillance. We may need to employ independent quality assurance professionals who randomly do “spot checks” on police officers on duty and implement GPS tracking on each police vehicle, weapon and uniform. If we can do these, then we would be sending a message that we are serious about police brutality and abuse of power for police would not stop their disobedience of the laws leading to death….
…. But to cover up the realities of abuse stemming from a history and culture of violence by the status quo, by minimizing records and narrative of its truth will never heal wounds in society that may ultimately lead to abnormalities such as civil wars, terrorism, extremism etc. This is the kind of truth that hurts, for it may contain painful things about you leading to anxiety. Sigmund Freud asserts that we use DENIAL to block as 1 of 6 defense mechanisms leading to abnormalities if not psychoanalyzed properly. Yet, Ron DeSantis Governor Ron DeSantis and the GOP in Florida is doing just that. Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies that are unconsciously used by individuals to protect from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings. According to Freudian theory, defense mechanisms involve a distortion of reality. Defense Mechanisms include Repression, Denial, Projection, Displacement, Sublimation and Regression (Sigmund Freud.) So, how do we deal with issues we are not dealing with properly to avert abnormalities. Desantis and the GOP need a kind of therapy and psychiatry that speaks to their psychoanalysis assessed in Freudian psychoanalytic theory of Psychology. The fix is psychological not politics or the usual human tendency to ban symptomatic of his defenses. That only pushes the problem to the unconscious creating further problems for themselves and society.
Image Excerpt from The Neoliberal Journal Article entitled: The Tyre Nichols Graphic Video: A Black Academic Response to Dealing With Police Brutality Within A Culture of Violence, via https://theneoliberal.com.
Submitted by: Renaldo C. McKenzie, Creator and Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor, Jamaica Theological Seminary, Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University and Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance. Renaldo is President of The Neoliberal Corporation, grassroots think tank social and digital media company that is aimed at “serving the world today to solve tomorrow’s challenges,” by making popular what was the monopoly. which is the aim of communication. Visit at www.theneoliberal.com. Subscribe for free and donate at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support.
Submitted by: Renaldo C. McKenzie, Creator and Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor, Jamaica Theological Seminary, Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University and Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance. Renaldo is President of The Neoliberal Corporation, grassroots think tank social and digital media company that is aimed at “serving the world today to solve tomorrow’s challenges,” by making popular what was the monopoly. which is the aim of communication. Visit at www.theneoliberal.com. Subscribe for free and donate at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support.