David Sklansky Observes Oakland’s Police Culture

The New York Times, October 1, 2011 by Shoshana Walter
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/us/those-gosh-darn-criminals-can-go-to-heck.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt

“It used to be that police forces were overwhelmingly white and male, pretty uniformly and aggressively homophobic, and politically and culturally conservative,” he said. But as departments have diversified and surveillance technologies have proliferated, “police officers are expected to get along better with people now much more than they used to be,” he said.