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Going in the wrong direction: we need more LOCALized police force ao that local community's needs get met FIRSTLY.
by egberts1 2y ago
Going in the wrong direction: we need more LOCALized police force ao that local community's needs get met FIRSTLY.
- striking 2y agoDon't we already have that? Is it working?
- righthand 2y agoNot anymore, post 9/11, congress will pass the yearly defense budget bill which includes sales of excess military hardware to police forces. To get the hardware your police have to meet specific operating requirements.
- reaperman 2y agoYeah it’s hyper-localized in the cities. There are 1,900 law enforcement agencies in Texas, 87 of them in the Houston area alone. Here’s a list of the law enforcement agencies in the Houston Area: https://hapca.org/Member%20Agencies/member-agencies https://hapca.org/Member%20Agencies/member-agencies They get as local as a department for just 150-300 acres of Brazosport College / Rice University or the Tiki Island Police Department covering a village of 1,100 people, despite being just a 5-minute drive to Galveston (a city of 53,000 people) I don’t think the problem is local vs national police. Either way the national culture can be poor overall (as it is now) and each local area can have widely different quality (as they do now)
- grayfaced 2y agoWe need both, I agree community needs are best served locally. But also small town sheriffs can capture too much power and need oversight.