This is why it is a very important thing for the government of a democratic state to set up a national police service that is able to police the overwhelming majority of the population by consent with minimum use of force, and does not give major parts of that population cause to regard them with hostility and fear, to which the police then react by adopting an even more heavily armed and coercive approach..EAllusion wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 3:24 pmhttps://Twitter.com/TheWholeStory6/stat ... 5800793088
Lol. Who could've seen that coming except people familiar with the last 300 years or so of history? It's only their hilarious insignificance that is likely preventing a reign of terror from happening in, like, a couple of weeks.
(The left-wingers attempting to set up an autonomous zone in Seattle are forming crude, factional government-like organization. This includes self-declared police force. That police force is then proceeding to violate rights like our actual police force.)
Because if the government fails to construct a consent-based police service, then on those rare occasions where the police are forced to withdraw from controlling a part of the population, that population is unlikely to simply heave a sigh of relief and get on with their lives without coercion. Instead, self-chosen groups will simply fill the gap by supplying the kind of armed coercive control that they have learned to see as normal.
I doubt whether we have an accurate view of what is happening in the 'autonomous zone', but if new forms of armed coercion are replacing the police, it would not be surprising.
And by the way, I don't think this sudden complete police pull-out and its consequences (whatever they may be) has any relevance to the desirability of the planned and progressively implemented redirection of current bloated police budgets to more fruitful means of crime reduction. Indeed, I wonder whether the whole point of the irresponsibly sudden police withdrawal may not have been to say to a disaffected population "See? The alternative to heavily coercive policing is even worse. More money, please."