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Re:The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world by mc_maurer on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:55AM (#40379853)
Pretty skeptical of a floating "3.5%" figure without any additional context. NYT estimates that 15-26 million people participated in the protests following George Floyd's murder. That breaks the 3.5% threshold, and I don't think we have seen a whole lot of serious police reform in the US since then.
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Re:The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world by geoduck14 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:23PM (#40383370)
>I don't think we have seen a whole lot of serious police reform in the US since then.

I was friends with some cops back them and I heard that plenty of police forces were reducing their staffing in response to the protests

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