• Neato
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    1910 months ago

    Yes. We need police in a society, as a force to prevent and stop crime. But what we have now across the US as police are shit. We need them to be rebuilt from the ground up as community policing with a focus on protecting people, not just enforcing violations.

    ACAB makes sense with the system we have. But I kinda doubt we’re going to get many tear down-rebuild efforts. Our best bet is to focus on stuff like this: institutional change in huge areas that change how police think and operate.

    • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      510 months ago

      I prefer PEB: Policing Enables Bastards.

      Shorter and more accurate, given the US alone has 800k cops and there must be some podunk department of two officers who treats the ten citizens in town well and just has to pull cars out of ditches and calm down drunk spouses or something a few times a year.

      Also if all good cops get fired so the rest are bad, there are some cops they’re working to fire as we speak and I want to respect them.