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You are. Cops were present in 17th century Britain, they served the aristocracy, the landed elite and the rich. They were tasked to round up "vagrants", poor people, etc.
Nope. Because the difference is the scope of their powers and where they are recruited from. A "police offcer" shouldn't have any authority outside of their neighbourhood/village, for example.
Every socialist country where the revolution was crushedt: Yugoslavia, ~~Soviet Union~~, Burkina Faso, ... in each of those countries the police was instrumental in taking power away from the people and giving them to the capitalists/imperialists. There's a reason why historically the communists have allied with the army and not the police.
Pretty sure I answered that. By having a society where people give a shit about one another. If a neighbour hears/sees domestic abuse going on, they should do something. The other solution is to remove the causes of domestic violence, like I already wrote.
A neighbourhood watch. The problem is the scope of powers. Have a police, but have the police officer only have authority inside of his neighbourhood or a demarcated, small area. Why should a cop have city-wide powers. Do we expect the police officer to be familiar with every neighbourhood and people in a city of 200-300k people? There's just no way. And that's part of the problem why the police behave the way they do, they are effectively ruling over strangers, and not people they have to see/meet every time they go to the grocery store.
So your solution is to have thousands of indiependant police cells in countries that have billions of people and expect it to just work out without any centralization of methodology or ideology and accountability to any central power? I can think of 100 ways this falls flat due to abuses of power....
Ah yes, lets just rely on our neighbours to violently de-escelate something, better hope your neighbour isnt a 70 year old women, il be moving into the bloc of MMA fighters and body builders to ensure my safety.
The police in the USSR didnt crush the revolution, america did that economically, they also didnt act as houndogs for landlords.
I think we agree in parts though, the best way for a socialist country to get rid of cops is to eliminate all the conditions that require them, thats what i was getting at with 'contradictions leading to solutions', total abolishment is shock therapy.
Most countries aren't that big. China and India account for 3 billion people, leaving 5 billion people across some 190 countries or so. It's not "thousands of cells" and "billions of people" in countries. I said neighbourhood/village. You're assuming that there's "crime" going on every second in every square km of a country, that's simply not true. You don't need that many cops to be "patrolling" the streets. And what are they doing anyway? Looking for petty criminals and people who are circumventing tax laws and regulations mostly.
The police doesn't "de-escalate", the police comes and beats people up and throws them in prison.
Does the police ensure your safety right now, or will they come after the fact to "investigate"? That neighbour who calls the police for you could also have stopped whatever was happening. The police can't teleport themselves instantly.
First thing any new socialist country should do is throw all the police into the prison, then politically educate and hire a new cadre.
OK? You don't think cops in AES countries beat people up or throw them in jail? They just come with blankets and cocoa? If you need the country you "defend" to be perfect in your eyes for you to defend it, I have bad news for you. I can recognise negative aspects of a country and still defend it and say it is preferrable to another.
"Simply isn't true that cops in AES countries beat people up and throw them in jail" lmao
The state police (like Stasi, for example in the DDR) subdue enemies of the state. Police are literally there to "clean up the streets". How can you be ignorant of this difference?
Is the American idealist in the room with us now? Or are you calling me an American idealist? Insults aren't going to help your case. You are having a knee-jerk reaction to a difference of opinion. Grow up.
How many have you?
As opposed to you, The Great Understander and Knower? Should I make assumptions about you? You traveled to AES countries as a tourist and got treated nicely, because that's how they treat tourists with money.