• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You’ve also got to demilitarise the police. End 1033 and claw back every iota of military gear. End killology training. Fund social workers to replace many of their duties. Etc etc etc too many things to name. It’s so bad that anything approaching adequate reform sounds insanely radical

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      Fully agree in that too.

      US police forces are a goant fucking mess, but it’s been this way for like a century. I’ve read way too much shit that already happened in the 1900s

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      This is it IMHO, as long as the problems pile up (or get made up) and don’t get solved by police, they’re allowed to spend more and more public money on armored vehicles and other crap that doesn’t help the community. This spending is what allows them to be both incompetent and wasteful or downright dangerous. “Follow the money”; who earns from all this?