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Also, why is all harm short of killing someone considered acceptable when police do it?
Yup. The average person would be charged, but qualified immunity means these assholes have carte blanche to murder at will.
As always, ACAB.
A lot of statistics about dangers in society seem to be entirely centred around deaths. Which is understandable of course, but underplays the many other harmful outcomes that can occur short of that.
You could argue very convincingly that some non-fatal injuries lead to a fate worse than death.
Even killing someone is only occasionally punished.
The idea is to offload violence from the society to the police (to give lawful monopoly on violence to the police). The alternative is wild west where everyone can do policing/violence as they see fit.
Granted that the policing should always be scrutinized and improved as needed, having completely "defund police" is not something we want to do.
My point is that conferring such enormous authority and power without enormous responsibility and accountability (and careful selection and training) is a mistake.
I'm 99% certain there are other possibilities in between the two extremes.
As I understand it, the "defund the police" movement is not about abolishing police. (And is a bit off topic, so I'll save that discussion for another time.)
May be you think “defund police” is actually train police or create additional department of people who can deal with things mentally ill (both of it costs money, the opposite of “defund”) but I bet most of the people do not think so, and treat “defund police” and ACAB exactly as it sounds.
In any case I have answers a very specific question in my previous post.