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This makes perfect sense to me as in, dispatch the EMTs and firefighters to fires and medical emergencies, dispatch the cops to incidents with an elevated risk
by hirundo 6y ago
This makes perfect sense to me as in, dispatch the EMTs and firefighters to fires and medical emergencies, dispatch the cops to incidents with an elevated risk of violence, and send unarmed specialists to everything else. And let them all back each other up as needed.
On the other hand this stuff makes no sense at all:
> “To abolish police we need serious affordable housing. We need food programs,” he said.
So people with homes and food don't commit crimes? That's contrary to my experience. And a call to abolish the police is just a call for the return of warlords, where the most belligerent and violent thugs make the rules. For all the problems we've got, that's not a step forward.
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- vvanders 6y agoIf the system doesn't work for the people then they won't want to work with the system. Food/shelter/inequality all drive that wedge and the sooner we bring things back to a balance the sooner we can work to fix our systemic problems.
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- Ar-Curunir 6y ago> most belligerent and violent thugs make the rules So, you mean exactly like right now?
- gatlin 6y ago> So people with homes and food don't commit crimes? This position isn't advanced anywhere in the article, and certainly not by the excerpt you quoted.