<div dir="ltr">I agree, Bill. I'd love to see what this replacement would look like. I am no fan of the police by any stretch of the imagination but I also acknowledge their utility. I'm curious to see what Minneapolis will look like if the council gets its way in completely disbanding the police force (and not replacing it with a reformed one).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As usual, Dan, you offer to get rid of something but do not supply anything to replace it to deal with crime.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Spike, I think, pointed out that the cops who were with the accused one were trainees - a reasonable, though not valid, reason why they didn't try to stop it, remark on it, or anything.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 2:45 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Jun 8, 2020, at 10:16 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Has anyone run the statistics to see just how widespread police brutality is? Just guessing: probably way less than 1% in police-public interactions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Defunding police: exactly the wrong thing to do. I don't know what their thinking is on this, but we need more, not less: 1 - better pay equals better people applying for jobs, 2 - they need to hire or somehow fund the mental health workers I mentioned in my previous email 3 - they need more time for training 4 - they need to hire consultants to restructure police departments and training. Probably more good reasons. Defunding could lower cop pay. It punishes the 99% plus majority of cops who are never brutal. (again, I do not know the statistics)</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's hard to track brutality because much of this stuff is quashed at the local level. I mean the stories and reports are quashed at that level. And until recently, there weren't the kinds of databases one comes to expect from other government operations.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I can't imagine why anyone would think there's a need for more police. Overall, violent and property crime has declined since the early 1990s. So, if the argument is there's ever more need for policing (to combat crimes of violence and property), this flies in the face of the crime data. (And this trend is both national and global. Yes, there are exceptions, but the US and the West are not exceptional with this trend.)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">As for how to penalize police misconduct, the problem goes further than, say, a bad apple in the bunch. The recent George Floyd case illustrates the typical police brutality narrative: one cop does wrong and the other cops on the scene do nothing to prevent or stop the wrong. They simply allow it to play out. In this case, yes, the other cops were charged, but that's what's atypical about the case. The usual case seems to be: one or more cops brutalize someone, the others look on, and they all face no penalties for misconduct.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Training and such also has little value if the incentives for misconduct remain in place. And all this depends on buy-in from the police, their unions, pro-cop groups, and pro-cop politicians. My guess is most of these reforms will be minuscule and more along the lines of making the protests die down before things return to business as usual. This is why abolition is the best approach: excise the problem rather than try to manage it.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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