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Read this. It lists some good points but does fail to mention how we rid the world of rapists and pedophiles since that’s more of a psychological issue than a need to survive issue. We would still need somebody contact in case of a violent crime imo.

Advancing people with education and employment should rid the world of crimes like theft, robbery and hopefully gang shootings in general thus lessening the need for police. But do we want to get rid of them completely?

What I think is that we dramatically defund, demilitarize and change their roles and basically only use them on a necessity basis rather than the first people we call. I do not agree with eliminating prisons in this scenario since we will need them for the violent criminals.

Some perspective as well:

Chicago in 2018 alone spent 118 million taxpayer dollars on police misconduct lawsuits, where else could that money have gone?

I will listen and respect all different viewpoints and won’t insult people that disagree with my main point like other users in this section. If there’s already a thread with this topic please merge ty.

Stop dreaming b****.

Defund & reform

Remove, reform and replace

dumbest s*** ever

kill them

Education and training should be #1 priority

How do you expect someone who barely passed HS to be a police officer and memorize basically the same amount of laws and guidelines a lawyer is supposed to

As long as we have poverty, there is a need for police (as it currently exist). A world without police can only exist in a world without poverty.

Raise the requirements to become one

Abolish. Policing needs to be returned to individual communities that define what is and is not acceptable in harmony with their own culture and values -- not just what the white bourgeoisie statesmen have decided.

You cannot reform an institution founded on slavery. They dont protect or serve the people and they were never intended to. Abolish them completely.

& replace them with what?

Who do we use to bring people who do commit criminal acts to bring them to prison or your rehab centers?

reform

Mental health and trauma experts and things of that nature

The only problem with this is it means we are just throwing more money at a system that in general doesn’t want to change

In my opinion, removing police is fantasy. Reform is more realistic.

Citizen's arrests only from now on

Idk go read some literature on the topic