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> I would rather see police reforms and a rethinking of priorities Why? Surely any new policing entity will entail the philosophy of reform and keeping the rot
by BrianHenryIE 6y ago
> I would rather see police reforms and a rethinking of priorities
Why? Surely any new policing entity will entail the philosophy of reform and keeping the rotten part around would be detrimental.
- rightbyte 6y agoI would argue that it is hard to have a much less rotten police force than the city in general. It seems quite crime ridden from the statistics. Maybe if you draft the policemen from other areas or cities?
- babygoat 6y agoRoughly 5% of the Minneapolis police actually live in Minneapolis. Maybe they should have hired from within the community instead.
- drunkpotato 6y agoPerhaps it is just me being less pessimistic about human nature. I think as an institution policing needs reform, but it can happen in a more gradual way. Not everyone in a bad system is a bad person, and people are remarkably morally flexible under pressure to fit in. Improve the institution and I believe you can improve the people inside it. I admit that with the surprising, to me, deplorable recent behavior of the Buffalo PD, I am more sympathetic to the idea of total replacement. So I’m interested to see whether this goes anywhere in Minneapolis.