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So how do we fix the actual problem? A functional police service is a useful thing to have and a moral imperative.

American police are sub optimal so we have to stop working with them and get rid of them is a non-sequiter

The idea that policing (or at least anything we would recognize as policing today) is necessary in society is from a universal opinion and certainly has not been the reality for most of human civilization.

"Abolish the Police" is not rhetorical. https://archive.ph/6E7mY

Maybe not having police worked when the population density was like half a person per square kilometer, but with people packed up into tight spaces as they do now, I think you’re living a dream.

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