Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police
by jeffbee on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:04PM
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That's really what "defund the police" does. The police union has a toxic contract with the police department. By dissolving the counterparty of the contract, you remove it from the equation. New law enforcement agencies can start from scratch without the weight of either the contract or, initially, any of the problematic personnel.
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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police
by hpoe on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:07PM
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So having seen many ground up rewrites of code I have to ask how do we make sure that when we redo the police we avoid the problems we got this time around?
Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police
by jeffbee on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:17PM
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Police toxicity is a path-dependent phenomenon. We got here by decades of incrementalism, where politicians, many of whom were, at the time, avowed racists, agreed to various aspects of civilian-police relations. Simply starting over today with current civilian leadership to draft a new doctrine guarantees a dramatically different outcome.
Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police
by seunosewa on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:49AM
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> Simply starting over today with current civilian leadership to draft a new doctrine guarantees a dramatically different outcome.
The current leadership (Trump) is very racist and authoritarian, so I'm not sure that your confidence fits the current time;