Some people propose having a very local, municipal for small towns, or even smaller for large towns, mercenary force with license to use lethal force that answers to direct democracy of the area they are assigned to and nobody else.

Just like police, only their contract is reviewed every year, for everyone in the force.

Odd. Plenty of other countries manage watching their watchers just fine...

>Some people propose having a very local, municipal for small towns, or even smaller for large towns, mercenary force with license to use lethal force that answers to direct democracy of the area they are assigned to and nobody else.

... and they don't even need local murder squads answering only to populist rage to do it.

The core issue is they are paid your tax dollars, but you have very little input or control on what and how they do, and municipalities in general rely on the fact that moving away is high friction to retain citizens.

Unfortunately you cannot easily fire them, if they underperform.

https://www.clearcreekcourant.com/stories/body-cam-footage-s...?

I'm hopeful better policing can be designed.