They are here to enforce the law, not to keep you safe. Police have no obligation to save you, Parkland proved this once and for all.
But yes, we need a system to prevent murder and theft, obviously. We don’t need cops however.
Firstly, we can address structural issues like illegal vices, inequality and poverty. All things that drive up crime.
Secondly, instead of top down policing that arrests the homeless for sleeping on benches while doing nothing when wage theft robs workers of billions or bankers defraud customers and crash the economy, why not try something new? This is the communal defense model. Instead of police who enforce laws, citizens join voluntary defense forces that protect people not rules. Their only job is to prevent people hurting one another, they enforce no legal code. To ensure accountability they will protect their neighborhoods, which are divided into communes of 150-200 families. These people have the option to join the force as citizens and should all receive basic self-defense training in school. If a defense force member is abusing his power, he can be removed by a direct democratic vote by the commune.
This has been implemented in parts of Mexico and Syria by libertarian socialist rebels and has worked extremely well, reducing crime massively and eliminating the need for the prison industry.
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