How about we just get rid of the guns for f***s sake

well. it could be, but it won't

Guns don't kill people. But tbh it's a start.

Idk about getting rid of guns completely tho especially in America.

Maybe military personnel only but then any cop is gonna get lit up, keeping it 100.

educate and reform them

People talking about community run police forget that the most famous "community police officer" in the country is George Zimmerman...

This is stupid.

Crazy how every police law expert prescribes genuine reform and bes just scream abolish police and say youre dumb if you disagree

Ok hear me out let's abolish police then replace them with police but we call em something different because I'm afraid of actual reform and want something to be radical about

What are the actual plans of reform and how would we make sure that they are effective?

I'm not sure about abolishing the police but radical reform is at least necessary right now. Cops should not have weapons on them while on patrol. Only special designated units should have weapons and I would even go as far as saying it should be "non-lethal" weapons that shoot rubber bullets and should only be sent out for violent crimes.

Massive cuts to the budget is absolutely necessary though. Allocate the extra funds into poor communities/public education and maybe violent crime will go down.

Its a difficult question to answer tbh, and I agree that their needs to be some sort of state organisation in place to at least monitor violent and s***crimes.

One question - you mentioned having a system in place where the police no longer function as the automatic first port of call for crime (or at least non-violent crime). In practice what would be the alternative solution to say, a non violent burglary?

You could potentially replace material goods through insurance, although these fees would obviously sky rocket if it was accepted that burglary wasn’t pursued as a crime. But what if a family pet is taken during the incident?

It's really not though

Yea man s*** like this will absolutely never happen if it interests you to see a world without police read/write a utopian novel or something

there would still be murders and crime lol, but yes that is a step for america

Abolish capitalism first

Of course there would still be crimes. But the guns are obviously a huge problem

Should be like how Watchmen (HBO) had it. Where the police have their guns locked in place, and have to message dispatch for them to unlock it depending on the situation.

Guns don't kill people

Bombs don't kill people

Im saying we live in a hyper violent society already. Remember the cold war. Just the threat of our violence calmed everybody down to look towards a different means of competition.
if we get rid of guns we gotta get rid of everything else above guns as well and make sure they never come back into existence.
that's tough.

OP was tryna instill hope for a better future here.

ban op tbh