People used to say this stuff non-ironically on my country (chile) years ago, but the steady rise of organized crime has made it so poppularity of the police now sits at like a 70%, yeah, police can be terrible, but the monsters hiding on the shadows waiting for a weakened police to emerge, are way worse.
We need a more professional police, more strict within their ranks, with better training and betting.
This is why I feel you can’t just start with abolishing the police. There’s too many problems that gave us the need for police as a band aid fix we need to focus on first. But then all these issues are so interconnected, it’s tricky.
The US policing system needs to be completely redeveloped from the ground up. It’s far too institutionally entrenched in outright racist and militarized policies.
People used to say this stuff non-ironically on my country (chile) years ago, but the steady rise of organized crime has made it so poppularity of the police now sits at like a 70%, yeah, police can be terrible, but the monsters hiding on the shadows waiting for a weakened police to emerge, are way worse.
We need a more professional police, more strict within their ranks, with better training and betting.
This is why I feel you can’t just start with abolishing the police. There’s too many problems that gave us the need for police as a band aid fix we need to focus on first. But then all these issues are so interconnected, it’s tricky.
The US policing system needs to be completely redeveloped from the ground up. It’s far too institutionally entrenched in outright racist and militarized policies.