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At least in my experience with police, ranging from dense inner city metro (DC, Houston) to suburb, and rural, society would function just as well, if not bette
by AndrewKemendo 6y ago
At least in my experience with police, ranging from dense inner city metro (DC, Houston) to suburb, and rural, society would function just as well, if not better without it.
I have yet to have an additive, positive interaction with Law Enforcement. I say this as a mixed-race person with LE as family members as well as working alongside Federal LE for most of my career.
Best case scenario I have seen is that LE will take a report of whatever [bad thing] happened and then courts will use LE to execute a specific warrant. Even then, nobody was made better off in that situation - simply that someone that committed an assault was punished.
- bagacrap 6y agoare you suggesting scrapping all laws? How do you enforce laws without police?
- Spivak 6y agoSemantics: if you define any system with the goal of ensuring that the laws are followed no matter the method used “the police” then sure you’re right. Does that mean such a system has to look anything like our currently very militarized police force? Nope!
- AndrewKemendo 6y agoWe're likely better off starting from scratch with the Constitution. Too much legacy code (literally legal code) is fundamentally flawed to try and keep modifying it.
- deeblering4 6y agoActually I’d suggest scrapping all police immunity, and hold officers fully and individually accountable to the law. IMO law enforcement officials should be expected to understand, obey and be held accountable to the law at a standard several orders of magnitude higher than civilians. Not the opposite.