> we’re witnessing an unprecedented wealth transfer right now in the US
Indeed. And it must be regarded as infinitely baffling that everyone is shouting "abolish the police" instead of "redistribute the wealth" ...
Indeed. And it must be regarded as infinitely baffling that everyone is shouting "abolish the police" instead of "redistribute the wealth" ...
Without them, 1/30th of the vacant residential stock in the US would be filled with 100% of the homeless people in the US, for example. (There are approximately 35x as many vacant houses/apartments in the US as there are homeless.)
Policing prevents, and makes possible, all sorts of things. It is a function of law. By abolishing policing you throw out the baby (the law) with the bathwater (laws that facilitate the concentration of wealth).
Calling a random member of society to do entirely untrained policing in the US would oftentimes result in better outcomes than the current police in the US:
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/outrage-flows-after-prosecutor...
And regarding anarchists, I don't understand how would they distribute scarce resources.