Something I should say more often

[oskar]

I am for abolishing the police.

I don't think that what you see at these protests is something that just manifested itself last week. They're doing what they've always done because they don't know any different. They create chaos and disorder, they instigate, provoke and escalate situations until they can use excessive force.

What I don't think is that there is a conscious effort by individual policemen to feed the prison industrial complex, but what I do think is that they are selected to do it whether they realize it or not.

I think that whatever good they're doing is massively outweighed by the destruction they're causing. There are different ways to deal with organized crime, and I don't mean DEA because all drugs should be legal. The walk-around-and-harrass-people section of the police needs to be completely abolished.

[Poopadoop]

I am for abolishing the police.

Yeah, we need this instead.

The walk-around-and-harrass-people section of the police needs to be completely abolished.

This much I agree with. The cops should need a proper reason to even approach someone. Not a busted tail light or loitering or being a certain colour.

[oskar]

Yeah, we need this instead.

Oh well, you're right, you can't have a violent mob of short tempered high school dropouts running around acting like they're immune to the rule of law, harassing and intimiating people for no good reason and... WAIT A MINUTE!

[wufwugy]

I am for abolishing the police.

I'm down with this BIG TIME.

It might be the most effective way to de-monopolize law and de-monopolize violence.

Like Obama said, the nation-state is the monopoly on violence.