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Re:How much do we need the police? by torb-xyz on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:57AM (#23413062)
Anyone I've talked with that believed in abolishing police understood that it would need to be replaced by some kind of other institution. Suddenly removing the police like that is therefore not a valid way to consider the abolishment of police in general.

I'm a bit surprised by someone who's familiar with an anarchist theory to be this naive about this stuff.

Today in Rojava (society in Syria based in part on anarchist principles) they are replacing the police with alternative institutions.

You can read more about it here: http://hawzhin.press/2020/06/01/how-to-abolish-the-police-le...

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Re:How much do we need the police? by hef19898 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:43AM (#23414546)
It is worth noting so, that of all western style democracies only the US has the kind of problems with police violence. Not saying other countries don't have police violence, but not even close to the degree the US has.

So instead of looking at alternative societies in Syria, how about looking at European countries and the way they are policing? Or Canada?

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Re:How much do we need the police? by oblio on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:24AM (#23414782)
No, the US is too special for that.
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