Yup. That there should be nobody at all with the training and resources (including weapons) needed to respond with adequate force to determined violent lawbreakers is nuts, especially in a society awash with high-power firearms like the US.Gunnar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 1:18 pmWouldn't we still need to have some people with the authority, resources and training to apprehend, arrest and incarcerate murderers, assaulters, thieves, sexual molesters, traffic violators and others who endanger public safety, and what would we call those tasked with that responsibility, other than police?
The question is, however, whether the present system of policing in many US cities is capable of being reformed to make it less violent, militaristic and racist, or whether US policing needs to be re-founded from the ground up - which would've course involve transferring funds away from the present system ('defunding') into new institutions - including ones which work to tackle the roots of violence in poverty, ignorance, mental illness and racism, as well as organising an appropriately (note that word) forceful response to any violence now in being.
By the way, I am very glad that DrC has. in the person of "Tony Williams, a member of MPD150" at last found an identifable crazy leftist who imagines that he can construct a world in which he needs no organised body whatsoever capable of practicing legitimised violence.