The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police

Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by hpoe on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:07PM (#23470295)

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?

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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by jeffbee on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:17PM (#23470420)

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.

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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by seunosewa on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:49AM (#23487809)

> 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;

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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by trianglem on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:09PM (#23511345)

Yes but the federal government has only so much influence in local level decisions so it will still pan out to be a massive net positive.

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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by the-dude on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:08PM (#23470312)

Try Rust?

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