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Dandelion Salad
February 27, 2023
Behind The Headlines on Feb 22, 2023
Over 800,000 police walk the streets of America every day. If you look at what police REALLY do with their every hour on-duty, we could easily replace 99% of them. Here’s how.
See also:
Cut Police Budgets: Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year, by Sonali Kolhatkar
‘Broken Windows Policing’ & the Killing of Tyre Nichols, by Marjorie Cohn
The End of Policing, by Alex Vitale
Trouble in town? Send in the Maroon People! by Melinda Burrell
From the archives:
Lee Camp and Alex Vitale: Should We Abolish Police?
Uh Oh, Here Comes the Occupying Army, by Robert C. Koehler + Goodbye, Tyre, by Leslie D. Gregory
Cop City Is The Future They Want, Unwavering Resistance Must Be Our Answer, by Kenn Orphan
PSL Editorial: Democrats Deepen Embrace of the Cops with Police Funding Bills
Police Are a Lie, by David Swanson
Geo Maher: A World Without Police + Nonviolence and Restorative Justice (Must-see)
Abolishing Police and Abolishing Militaries, by David Swanson
Dandelion Salad 
European countries have more police than the US. This is from an open in the Mpls Tribune a few months. It provided convincing evidence that the presence of police was an effective deterrent to crime. The more the better. As we know from Euro experience they don’t have to be armed.
I’m sure you’re right. It would be even more effective if every nation in Europe were a police state, with police on every street corner, 24/7 web cameras in every room of every house and guillotines on every high street “as a deterrent”. Because if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve nothing to fear. Have you never done anything wrong to anyone, spearman3004? Are the police always 100% correct in the people they arrest?
Has it never occurred to you that there might be better, less destructive of society and more effective ways of reducing offending behaviour? And that what you and the Right narrowly define as ‘crime’ conveniently leaves out corporate and government crimes?
Thank you, Becky, great comment.