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The police need more guys like Mader.Originally Posted by zitothebrave
If it was up to me we would bring the troops home, lay off 75% of law enforcement, and replace those cops from within the ranks of the military. I know a lot of cops are ex military now but at this point its the system that corrupts. It needs a culture change.
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Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
no, we don't need more military/militarization of our police force
that's one of the biggest problems with our police force
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Many things that are currently crimes need to not be, and many other crimes need their mandatory sentencing reduced/eliminated, or need to be downgraded from felonious transgressions to mere misdemeanor / citable offenses. Police-force culture is a big problem, but it's respondent to and reflective of a larger culture that—for moral, but even more so monetary causes—stresses carceral options over community censure and individual rehabilitation.
Much needs to be done, but one step I'd like to see is discouraging recidivism by making it more difficult for employers to discriminate against individuals previously convicted of a crime. Obviously there would be some exceptions—for instance, perhaps a minimum amount of time out of the criminal-justice system, and otherwise employed, before one can work with children—but I think making sure our ex-convicts truly are ex- (as opposed to ensuring they are once-and-future-convicts) would go a long way in discouraging police forces from conceiving of large groups, and even whole communities, as essentially separate from society and criminal-by-default.
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Militarization of the police is not because of hiring ex-military people. Its a result of the war on drugs. I think the soldiers we have in Iraq and Afghanistan are uniquely qualified to because they face a greater threat 24/7 than a lot of these cops murdering people. Notice the hero in this story was the military guy. His training for dealing with people with guns is more sophisticated than "kill it!"
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
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