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The larger issue is how do we manage a society to follow accepted norms. Most jurisdictions have elected to choose a police force, but smaller ones --not sure
by mc32 4y ago
The larger issue is how do we manage a society to follow accepted norms. Most jurisdictions have elected to choose a police force, but smaller ones --not sure how extendable that is-- use councils or elders or whatnot. These can also end up in weird derailments on occasion.
In large societies, the US, India, China, Panama, etc., with many strangers living among each other in large settlements, how do we, uhhh, "police" the population? Or how do we manage the population from infringing/violating each other's rights?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoSo, I don't know, necessarily. I'm not a sociologist or philosopher or anything else that would give me particularly strong insight on how we can structure society to meet our goals. But that doesn't discredit my discernment that policing as we have it is overall a harmful system that needs to change so significantly that it will be unrecognizable from it's current form. > Or how do we manage the population from infringing/violating each other's rights? Do we manage it now? Do police do that? If they do the US should be one of if not the safest country in the world. Is it? The very clear evidence is that police don't accomplish this goal, or that this is not the goal of police. My belief, earned through experience, is that keeping us safe, "preventing crime" is not what police do. And what they is do is not something we should want or endorse. Yes, we will need "policing" the norms of society, management of the boundaries between individual rights, reaction to transgressions against them. But what we have isn't effective at that anyway, so why are we so invested in keeping it? We can do better and the police themselves have no interest in helping us figure out how.
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