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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
(www.reuters.com)
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Police in the U.S. is a shit show and other countries are following because they all reduce the screening procedures, psychological care and training time. But just defunding them, without doing anything else, will make it worse.
You propaply have to build up some completely new type of police force, break it up and fill important positions with new people and start again from there.
Otherwise this will continue to spiral downwards. And with increasingly bad reputation of police you will attract more an more bad people into the job.
That's actually what one city did. They fired all their police, created new procedures for training and screening, amd hires all new police. During the months it took to do this they relied on country amd atate police, so there was very little poloce presence in town. The end result was people had more faith in police and no real change in crime, but fewer citations where issued
What city did this?
it was some where in new England I to say Maryland
There are countries in this world where the police actually consists of a body of well-trained specialists. People who don't shoot first and ask questions later. People who got trained on de-escalation procedures, psychology, foreign language basics, how to deal with people having issues, etc.