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How often have proposed limits on police power actually been effected (or effective)? It seems that every year, year after year, and decade after decade police

• ku-man 5y ago
  To be honest, I wouldn't mind a powerful and controlling police as long as they effectively control crime. But the sad truth is criminality doesn't go down regardless of how much power is handled to the police. I don't blame too much the police as the judiciary system that considers criminals some sort of victims of society.
• doc_gunthrop 5y ago
  On the upside, three states so far have abolished qualified immunity (New Mexico joined the list earlier this year). The first was Colorado in 2020. So there's hope this may spread to other states in the coming years.
  • anigbrowl 5y ago
    The problem is that abuse tends to vastly outpace incremental reform. We are just now making serious strides to legalizing cannabis and decriminalizing other sorts of drug use. That's great, but stack it up against the length of the drug war, the billions involved, and the number of lives it has impacted.