Yes, if you militarize the police, put them above the law, and unaccountable then you could safely say shit happens. That's obvious enough to everyone. What may not be so obvious is that police are paid by us to protect us and serve us. They are fully funded and equipped with high-tech military grade weaponry to be able to harm us. That is their job. Subdue. Control. Inflict harm. Dominate. They do not protect and serve us (read black, brown, yellow, red and impoverished people.)
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The social system that we have now exists only protect wealthy white people. It is meant to prevent any dissention from the lower economic classes and to keep them impoverished to where they are neutralized as a threat to the system. The Police are not here to protect us. Specifically they are here to protect the priviledged white people with property and power in this country. The solution is to put the wealth of the nation to work for a positive and sustainable life for everyone. Not by having a nation of a select few who use their wealth and power to extract every last possible bit of profit and every last drop of resources to further accumulate wealth. When we put people to work building shit that the country needs, like environmentally friendly power sources, rebuilding infrastructure, electric cars, solar panels, greenhouse robots... ? Who knows? There should be a decent job for everybody that wants one. And it should pay decently too. All of a sudden the U.S. is able to send out billions in stimulus checks but before the Pandemic the country was teetering on bankrupcy if all those student loans weren't paid back with interest. The point is that it can be done. It is not communism. People would be rewarded for their work, and if they choose not to work they would not earn the same rewards as those who do. Most people, when they are healthy and well fed, want to do something meaningful. People naturally want to work and contribute, especially when their work is valued and they are recognized as a valuable part of society.
If Health, Education, Vocational Training and Housing and Medicine become priorities as they should be, there will not be a need for a heavy handed police force everywhere. If people are working together, building things in their communities where they all have a stake in the matter, they already have a built-in self interest in making sure everyone benefits and no one is left out. The policing force in its first act of reform at the very least, should require a certificate with a limited time of duty and mandatory reviews like any other professional position. If the problem is just a few bad cops as they all say, then it should be easy enough to spot these people and revoke their certificate. If people are well fed, very rarely do they steal for food. If they are well educated, housed, and employed you have eliminated most of the problems from which crime stems from in the first place.
But what do I know? I'm just a Dynavap, flower-vaping, old-school hippie. And really disappointed by all the young people of my generation who I thought were cool growing up, and would make the world a better place. Instead they turned out to be bigger assholes than the generation they replaced.
