Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department

Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by yread on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:17AM (#23456206)

There is also a wijkagent - "neighborhood cop". Actual policeperson (with gun and all) that has "office hours" when they are walking around the neighborhood talking to people (even just for a chat) at the playgrounds, business owners and so on. People come to them with problems. There is a website where you can look up wijkagent for each neighborhood. Sometimes they're also active on Twitter, FB... Works quite well

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by mcv on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:55AM (#23457004)

It's very important that police is connected to the community they police, and cares about that community. My impression of police in the US is that that is rarely the case in cases where this police brutality occurs.

I'm fairly happy with Dutch police. They're visible and approachable. They're not perfect; there was a case in the 1990s where they cracked down unreasonably hard on a peaceful student protest. And in that case, it turned out that many of those cops were indeed looking forward to a fight, which is a dangerous and harmful attitude. Those instances are fairly rare, though.

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by yread on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:35AM (#23457423)

Yes, no one is perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCdrFYm5b8

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by mcv on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:11AM (#23464738)

Even so, no tear gas, no beatings, and despite the protesters resisting as much as they non-violently can, the police are not using any violence beyond pulling and shoving them into the bus.

I was thinking more of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIwrdriLiZc

(It's surprisingly hard to find anything online about events before 2004. This was all over the news at the time, but now it looks like it never happened. My quality newspaper lacks proper archive functionality for searching more than a year ago. Search engines and Youtube have never heard of this, frequently returning 0 results.)

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