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Abolish police.
There's no "reforming" a system that was BUILT this way.
I don't want to hear it. Find another place to lick boots.
The system in the USA is built this way. There are countries in the world where police officers act professionally and can be trusted.
We don't want a lawless, free for all place without any law enforcement, we deserve a proper force, trained to behave in a professional manner, and monitored to do so.
You could describe the deep reform needed as "abolish and then build from the ground", but that's a matter of how to reach the goal, rather than a change in the goal itself'.
We could start by making the people who are issued government firearms and the ability to stop whoever they want conform to higher standards than random schmucks in the population. We don’t need lower standards when lives and livelihoods are on the line.
Gee I wonder who is out there that will recklessly give excess power to sketchy characters as long as they believe that person will only hurt the “other” people.
The watering down of "Defund the Police" for more palatable public consumption was a travesty.
"Oh no, we're reasonable! We just want the police to have access to more training and better tools to engage with the public!"
No, we wanted them gone, from the ground up.
It definitely showed just how powerful and overwhelming copaganda is. "Defund the Police" really struck a nerve with the people who hold the power in US society, I think we should keep striking that nerve.
Here the police are viewed as the proverbial ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Every dollar spent on them is evidence of a failure somewhere else in the system.
We still don't want to remove them though, they still provide that important safety net; any complex system is likely to have errors at some point.
You say it's boot licking to question you, which in itself is fucking retarded.
But I want to hear your plan.
Say we abolish the police - what next?