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This has always been a terrible system and will continue to be. Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that m

This has always been a terrible system and will continue to be. Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that may or may have not been intending to commit a crime is a recipe for brutality in a community.

smtddr 13y ago
> Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that may or may have not been intending to commit a crime is a recipe for brutality in a community. So, other than the rape it's about the same as American law enforcement. ;) I'm sorry, I'm just joking.... _kinda_. To be serious though, I think a community has more power over a hired private security group than the community has power over first-world law enforcement. If the people of Oakland felt there was more negative than positive with the security group being around, they can just stop paying them[1]. To stop the Oakland PD, is a bit more complicated. I also believe the Oakland community would get to know the security-enforcers a bit more if they directly hire them. Perhaps even become friends; then maybe members of the community would join in at which point the line between the defenders & defendees would blur. The community would feel stronger. That feeling, even if not really true, of enpowerment I think counters feelings of hopelessness and could be the beginning of real change in troubled parts of Oakland. Or, I could be very wrong. The private-security-group could try to enforce, get completely gunned down and quit and the whole experiment fails.... 1. They really need to make sure they find the right people though. Hiring the wrong people, then firing them can make things worse than when it started. I think it's important that whoever they hire work closely with community members and befriended.
- scarmig 13y ago
  Well, the police have a deal with the prison guards to let them dole out all the rape. They don't want to encroach on their turf.

smtddr 13y ago

> Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that may or may have not been intending to commit a crime is a recipe for brutality in a community. So, other than the rape it's about the same as American law enforcement. ;) I'm sorry, I'm just joking.... _kinda_. To be serious though, I think a community has more power over a hired private security group than the community has power over first-world law enforcement. If the people of Oakland felt there was more negative than positive with the security group being around, they can just stop paying them[1]. To stop the Oakland PD, is a bit more complicated. I also believe the Oakland community would get to know the security-enforcers a bit more if they directly hire them. Perhaps even become friends; then maybe members of the community would join in at which point the line between the defenders & defendees would blur. The community would feel stronger. That feeling, even if not really true, of enpowerment I think counters feelings of hopelessness and could be the beginning of real change in troubled parts of Oakland. Or, I could be very wrong. The private-security-group could try to enforce, get completely gunned down and quit and the whole experiment fails.... 1. They really need to make sure they find the right people though. Hiring the wrong people, then firing them can make things worse than when it started. I think it's important that whoever they hire work closely with community members and befriended.

scarmig 13y ago
Well, the police have a deal with the prison guards to let them dole out all the rape. They don't want to encroach on their turf.