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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by gliese1337 on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:59PM (#23431652)
It worked for the country of Georgia. They disbanded their entire national police force, and violent crime immediately went down.
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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by javagram on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:14PM (#23431847)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Georgia_(co...

This page says Georgia has 42k police officers.

I think the disbandment you mention was clearing out old corrupt officers and replacing them with new recruits, which is mentioned there. Not actually getting rid of the police.

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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by gliese1337 on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:41PM (#23434348)
They do now. Because yes, they did re-establish the police force later. But step one was completely eliminating the existing force. 100% reset.
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