In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.

  • @QHC
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    Do you believe the current version of policing in America can be successfully reformed? Can the current officers be sufficiently re-trained? Who is going to patrol the streets until that happens?

    When people say abolish the police, they are saying that the current system has to be entirely dismantled and replaced. You actually appear to agree with the end objective.

    • LanternEverywhere
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      71 year ago

      If that’s what they mean then they’re terribly miscommunicating, because they’re literally saying something completely different.

      • @QHC
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        Not really. “Abolish the police [as they currently exist]” is just step 1.

    • @Breezy
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      I think we should keep police as police, but start a new agency something like peace proctors or something. Phase out ready acces guns for the police, they can be in an eclctonicly locked box in their trunk as a last resort. Then make their only priority issueing tickets.

      Have the new units patrol and respond to dangeous situations but not allow them to issue tickets. I feel with the correct training to defuse problems and being held accountable to the new creed of keeping the peace would do some good. Of course some police will try to switch to maintain their rage hard ons of power, but when they pull the same shit charge them with derelict of duty and fire them with fines or jail time depending on what they done.

    • @Burn_The_Right
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      It can. Every act of oppression, bigotry, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and misogyny comes from one particular profile of cop. Conservative. Remove conservatives from policing and those issues stop almost completely.

      There are a few good cops and every single one of them is a progressive.

      • @[email protected]
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        While we’re at it would you guys like to be in control of the military, schools, and the media too?

        • @Burn_The_Right
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          Only if there is a problem with oppression of vulnerable groups in those places.

          Conservatives can’t resist oppressing vulnerable people. That’s just who they are at their core.

        • Flying Squid
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          11 year ago

          No, I would like them to not be in control of the military, schools and the media. There’s a difference.