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> The purpose of police is to "serve & protect". This is the purpose of police as stated by the police and the institutions that create and endorse them. It d
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
> The purpose of police is to "serve & protect".
This is the purpose of police as stated by the police and the institutions that create and endorse them. It doesn't make it true and I don't believe it is.
That's really what it comes down to I think. I'm not asking for a lawless world where all are free to commit whatever harms they wish without consequence. I'm saying an institution actually designed to protect people would bear almost no resemblance to policing as it exists now. And also that we should create that institution instead of police. There is no path that I can see from police as we have them to that other thing.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoWe may be in agreement then (it'll depend somewhat on locality, I think there is implicit assumption in this thread and HN of USA and that's fair enough). FWIW, wording can sometimes obstruct our message; to my literalist mind, "we don't need the police" and "their purpose is not worth serving", are radically different statements then "police currently is so broken, that if we wanted to fulfill their stated purpose, we need to start from scratch"
- wollsmoth 4y agoYeah I definitely agree we have a serious lack of accountability in policing.