Former prisoners often develop deeply ingrained negative attitudes toward authority figures, such as police officers, due to the inmate social code that portrays them as 'the scum of the earth.' However, these attitudes can be transformed through academic research and shared experiences, such as running marathons, which reveal that law enforcement officers are ordinary human beings doing their jobs, not inherently evil. This demonstrates that understanding and personal connection can bridge the divide between criminal and law enforcement mindsets.
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From Criminal Mindset to Human Connection: My Transformation #shortsAdded:
I was a different person when I got out to what I was when I went in because I I was fully criminalized. I was fully criminalized when I got out. I was fully committed to the criminal ethic to the point that I hated cops.
Mhm. I hated cops. I hated uniforms. I hated bus conductors. I hated anyone wearing a uniform. It was It was sort of drilled into us in jail by the inmate social code that the worst filthiest thing you could ever be called is to be called a policeman. That they were They were the scum of the earth.
Mhm.
You know, and um and I I had a real chip on my shoulder when I got out uh in that sense. Mhm. But when I started writing my PhD working on my PhD and I started interviewing prison officers uh because I it was on the history of the maximum security prison. So, I was interviewing prison officers who'd been prison officers in the '50s and '40s. It It was from in the post-war period with focused on.
Um I got to talk to a lot of guys. I realized that you know you build up this image of this evil person.
It's like you You'd be the same if you were a terrorist, really. I suppose the IRA had that mentality as well. You develop it. And and coppers have the same mentality about criminals. You see, it's them and us.
Um and then I realized, well, you know, they're just actually human beings like us and Doing a job. And doing their jobs and And and and And then I got to know quite a few cops through running marathons cuz there's quite a few cops running marathons.
Oh, they're not bad blokes after all, you know. And and and Now, of course, I I get on really well with police and >> [snorts] >> And um and you know, Greg O'Connor became a friend of mine. We became friends and So, I changed as well when I got out.
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