The NYPD is skulking through the L train demanding IDs from Black and Latino men, again with zero justified cause or explanation as to why.

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Some kind of police is necessary. Public order needs to be kept, laws enforced, crime fought, dangers prevented. A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

    What kind of powers, tasks, oversight, and so on police gets is the issue.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      9 minutes ago

      A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

      Maybe it’s pedantic of me to say this but there was not a state monopoly on violence in the past and there certainly isn’t now. A lot of goon squads are composed of private security forces.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        There should be a state monopoly on violence, and that violence should be heavily regulated.

        Sadly, neither of those statements are currently true.