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I wonder if you couldn't start hiring social workers and garbage collectors under the police's budget. Pitch it in some ridiculous but slightly connected way. Garbage collectors could be 'gathering evidence' as the law allows garbage to be searched without warrant, and social workers could be some sort of 'post-incident contact follow-up-ers.' Hell, expand it to wildly mildly connected things, like roadwork and bike paths, you know, to make the cops able to get around faster.
Social workers, Crisis intervention teams, psychologists and a whole lot more. Police work doesn't necessarily just consist of shooting people. But I guess in the US that's a radical viewpoint.
Policing in the US rose largely out of slave patrols. You can’t just tell them to hire social workers and expect any change. The problem is so deeply rooted and systemic that you have to eliminate the entire concept of police and start from the ground up.
If I was in charge of replacing the police, part of the changes would be limits on serving as an officer and other roles. This would encourage fresh blood to replace the old, and help prevent corruption: Former police officers can end up under the batons of their successors, if they don't ingrain good values into the next generation.
By breaking up the career and authority of police officers into discrete chunks, we can also prevent power accumulation via social bonds among them. Something like:
1 year of academy -> 3 years as officer -> 1 year paid remedial education -> 3 years as officer -> 1 year paid remedial -> 3 years as officer, etc.
While we would lose raw efficiency due to elections, education requirements, and so forth, I think something like this would help prevent police from becoming a vile cornerstone of society.
Those things are separate from police in the US. Probably intentionally.
The problem is the KCPD doesn’t report to the city. They don’t have to do what the mayor says so they just do what they want.
It’s gross and they end up paying out a lot in lawsuits.
Well see the police budget is now 99 percent this new peoples internal affairs that get anti tank weapons and are hired to follow cops around there are ten with gins pointed at cops at all times under the logic that policibg makes you good so were just policing the police so they're more efficient and good
Oh they privatized trash pickup. It sucks. Cost more and you never know when they will get there. It has improved marginally in recent years. But even just a year or two ago. They would regularly not show up till the day after pick up was supposed to be. Often well after sunset. I'm guessing they were probably purposely understaffing. Abusing their employees to nickel and dime the contract for every cent they could get.
And if there's one thing our dip shit state legislature is against. It's having competition for privatized services. Especially after the Kickbacks they get.
I was wondering the same, malicious compliance. You could do a lot under the guise of pre-crime prevention.
Give every sanitation worker a badge and a gun. Call them the police anti-littering squad or something.