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IPFS News Link • Police State

It's Time to Imagine a Post-Police World...

• http://thefreethoughtproject.com, Claire Bernish

Police are under no obligation to protect the public they putatively serve — a series of state and Supreme Court decisions stretching back more than three decades indisputably establish this fact — so the lingering question, 'who will protect us?' is of no consequence to the case for dismantling every police department in the nation.

On the contrary, police kill, maim, intimidate, harass, and generally brutalize the citizenry with alarming frequency — and rarely face consequences beyond a paid vacation farcically termed 'administrative leave' for doing so.

Rather than fight and solve violent crimes, police act as little more than heavily militarized code-enforcers, or as David Graeber of the London School of Economics aptly terms, "bureaucrats with weapons" — protecting us from broken tail lights, missing front license plates, and imperfect lane changes more often than from robbery, homicide, and rape.

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Police are people. People can be police. Give everyone a gun, and make him/her wear it open carry whenever in public, off his/her own residence/property. If such a program is implemented over, say, a five-year period, with training for the people, we won't need any special police other than some forensics. Average people will "regulate" the crooks out of business better than police could ever think of doing. And, we wouldn't have police or political corruption any longer. Think about it.



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