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City councils represent all the people of the community, not just the police department or a private company. The problem will solve itself in one election cycl
by tencentshill 3mo ago
City councils represent all the people of the community, not just the police department or a private company. The problem will solve itself in one election cycle as people vote out the candidates that Flock swayed.
- anigbrowl 3mo agoThe problem will solve itself in one election cycle Yeah that's pretty unlikely because it's hard to organize people for candidate B just based on one point of dissatisfaction with candidate A, especially when votes against candidate A can be easily split and Candidate A uses their incumbent advantage to claim credit for any and all positive outcomes.
- moate 3mo ago...that doesn't solve the actual problem, as all that guarantees is new officials. You need another step which is electing officials that are willing/able to enact policy change on this issue and who then do it. There's countless examples of "we need to get the bad man out of office, oh shit, the new man is also bad in the exact same way!" All this is to say: voting is a process, not a solution.
- Zigurd 3mo agoYou have an idealistic, not to say naïve, view of the relationship between PDs and the municipalities that pay for them.