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There is some volatile rhetoric about dealing with the police, where "defund" has been used in a way that has been stretched to mean "abolish", which makes the conversation difficult to maintain. But we have to start somewhere.
I propose that the starting point should be "live there". No armed officers should be allowed to carry weapons or use force outside their local area. The complaint I have is that these blue-clad thugs commute twenty miles or more, from their nice suburban homes, to bust heads in the ghetto, in which they have no personal interest other than a paycheck.
This needs to change. The police need to be people interested in making their own neighborhood a better place. The only people who should be allowed to commute should be detectives, who investigate stuff but are never armed. Not even the chief of police should be commuting from elsewhere (being essentially armed-by-proxy).
Anyone have a problem with this idea?
I propose that the starting point should be "live there". No armed officers should be allowed to carry weapons or use force outside their local area. The complaint I have is that these blue-clad thugs commute twenty miles or more, from their nice suburban homes, to bust heads in the ghetto, in which they have no personal interest other than a paycheck.
This needs to change. The police need to be people interested in making their own neighborhood a better place. The only people who should be allowed to commute should be detectives, who investigate stuff but are never armed. Not even the chief of police should be commuting from elsewhere (being essentially armed-by-proxy).
Anyone have a problem with this idea?