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  • My apologies, I submitted a comment regarding that elsewhere. By slashing their budget, I meant to say: divert it to other positions like to social workers so issues with mental health crises wouldn’t introduce excessive force. I think police really should be focused on the Public Servant part.


  • I think disarming/defending would be two sides of the same issue. I meant to add to the list for defending, splitting police’s workload with some other task force/committees like having dedicated traffic police that only deal with traffic issues/social workers for mental health crises, semi medical personnel (to help paramedics) for injured cases/domestic abuses. If force is necessary, there should be a highly trained specialized force they would call in.

    Being a cop carries too many responsibilities, diverting some of those to dedicated teams/positions would create less scenarios where cops come and shoot your dog (or you) and create more jobs.


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    Probably some combination of:

    • Require them to have a 4 year degree
    • No qualified immunity
    • Make them also liable to civil suits
    • Heavily slash their budget
    • Disarm all of them, save maybe for SWAT
    • much, much better descalation training (pretty sure they’re trained to escalate immediately)