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Re:Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Loca... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:56AM (#24280201)
Most people who don't live in high-crime neighborhoods very much desire for their neighborhood not to become one. If we tell them the choice is between overly aggressive police and no police, they'll pick the aggressive police, no matter what tragedies overaggressive policing has caused.
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Re:Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Loca... by istjohn on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:55AM (#24292748)
But it's a false choice.
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Re:Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Loca... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:35AM (#24294691)
Absolutely! There's no reason the police couldn't just be respectful and nonviolent. Many police forces in the country already manage it. That's why I think "defund the police" is self-defeating messaging; many people understand it to mean that reform is impossible and the only way to reduce police violence is to reduce police presence.
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