Do You Care Enough to Be a Cop?

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New zealand has a national police force, and they recruit nationally. They spent like millions of dollars this recruitment scheme called, do you care enough to be a cop? So already we're not in the punisher territory, right? And they have this video. It's been viewed by millions of people in a place where there's only five million peoplea. The demographics of their applicants changed radically. When they did screening and also the diversityof the applicants. Policeian relations have improved in new zealand with the indigenous community - mary community.

All societies grant more power to some citizens, and there is always a temptation to use that power for the benefit of themselves rather than for the greater good. Power corrupts, we are told — but to what extent is that true? Would any of us, upon receiving great power, be tempted by corruption? Or are corruptible people drawn to accrue power? Brian Klaas has investigated these questions by looking at historical examples and by interviewing hundreds of people who have been in this position. He concludes that power can corrupt, but it doesn’t necessarily do so — we can construct safeguards to keep corruption to a minimum.

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Brian Klaas received his D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford. He is currently Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a columnist for The Washington Post. His new book is Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us. He is host of the Power Corrupts podcast.