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Laws? Should the police be involved?

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Laws? Should the police be involved? No, the police should not be, and generally are not, involved in most non-criminal laws.
  • hajile 4y ago
    Police enforce EVERY law. Even the most minor infractions are ultimately backed up with the idea that the police will force you to comply. We have plenty of examples up to and including little kids getting tasered and arrested for minor or even imaginary infractions. Throughout history, there has been no law so vile that police cannot be found who are willing to enforce that law.
  • colpabar 4y ago
    It seems ridiculous to claim the police can't possibly be involved in any kind of legal matter. I dated a girl who once had a panic attack, and because of some policy, the hospital she first went to called the police and they literally handcuffed her inside a van to take her to a different hospital. edit: I guess I do agree with you that they should not be involved. But my point is that laws tend to give police "justification" to use force, whether they're supposed to or not. I am not an anarchist, we do need laws, but I think it's important that we remember who will be enforcing them when new ones are suggested.