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> When do we start getting serious about visualizing a future without police? There will always be rules, people will always break them and some group of speci
by parineum 5y ago
> When do we start getting serious about visualizing a future without police?
There will always be rules, people will always break them and some group of specialists will always be trusted with extra responsibility to deal with those people.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoBut that doesn't have to look anything like what we have now. Arguably, courts meet your description.
- parineum 5y agoWhen a man comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man whom he then murders, how will the courts find that man and bring them to justice?
- jMyles 5y agoThis has never been the job of police, but of the much older institution of the sheriff (though today, there's hardly a distinction).
- parineum 5y agoI'm clearly talking about today and the future.
- jMyles 5y agoRight. So, the most obvious answer is to simply restore the institution of the Sheriff while abolishing police. An even better answer is to reimagine decentralized community security with all of the capabilities of an information age society - cameras, drones, etc.
- parineum 5y agoWhat problems are you trying to solve? I think there were a lot more very serious issues with law enforcement the further in the past you go. > An even better answer is to reimagine decentralized community security with all of the capabilities of an information age society - cameras, drones, etc. You're going to have to be a _lot_ more detailed when you're proposing something so radical if you want me to at all understand how that would actually work and work better than what we've got now. What you just described sounds to me like my entire community invading my privacy.