Enumerate the duties of the police. Eliminate the duties that are simply guarding private property rights and putting down actions (but I repeat myself). Distribute them to different departments that can actually be trained specifically to deal with different situations. Traffic cops, 9-1-1 call centers, parking enforcement, taking reports on non-viopent crimes (e.g. petty thefts), taking reports on violent crimes, ideally split into appropriate response units or departments (sexual assault responses should not be handled by the pricks that are usually involved), crisis response that includes trained social workers and a separate and properly-trained security contingent where necessary, safety officers that walk around simply observing and helping people out, actively de-escalating any potential conflicts and providing resources to people who need them (imagine an officer that made sure an unhoused person was aware of the resources available to them and would have a follow-up visit by a social worker to get them free housing and other basic rights).
And most importantly, redirect funding into preventative, society-level changes. Reduce the likelihood that someone is in crisis in the first place by making sure they have housing, food, community, and any mental health support needed. Cops are the last responders, not first responders. By the time they can theoretically do anything to help, multiple systems have already failed a person - or were themselves defunded in order to make more room for capitalists and cops.
Also, always remember that when seconds matter, the police are just minutes away. They don't prevent or directly resolve anything bad 99.9% of the time. The bad thing that happened occurred because of how the person doing the bad thing got to that state, because of the social interactions to which we are subjected (that person in that place with that other person), the material conditions that make a given bad action incentivized, and cops didn't do shit to make it better, they're only going to show up and take a report and forget you. More likely, they actively contributed to the bad thing by feeding the mass incarceration system, by helping to create black markets and selective enforcement that parasitize poverty, by making peoples' lives that much worse through harassment and deprivation.
Dumb liberal framing. We don't need a replacement for police, we simply remove them and society instantly gets significantly better.
The "good" stuff that cops are supposedly tasked with (though not in reality) can be done by specialists who are newly and uniquely trained to do such tasks. But that's not 'replacing' the police, that's filling a niche which police did not fill to begin with.
Traffic control, social workers for most calls, a much less independent apparatus for responding to active violence, chilling tf out about things like drug use
Basically, anything that pigs currently do, except done by people who are actually under a directive to help and have no more authorization than anyone else to kill. Where such authorization is necessary, they should absolutely not be an unaccountable gang of fascists. Then of course, the way we treat minor crimes already amounts to a war against poor people so we just should stop (and [REDACTED] those responsible for running the 'justice' system we have now)
what is the replacement for police if they were defunded?
Enumerate the duties of the police. Eliminate the duties that are simply guarding private property rights and putting down actions (but I repeat myself). Distribute them to different departments that can actually be trained specifically to deal with different situations. Traffic cops, 9-1-1 call centers, parking enforcement, taking reports on non-viopent crimes (e.g. petty thefts), taking reports on violent crimes, ideally split into appropriate response units or departments (sexual assault responses should not be handled by the pricks that are usually involved), crisis response that includes trained social workers and a separate and properly-trained security contingent where necessary, safety officers that walk around simply observing and helping people out, actively de-escalating any potential conflicts and providing resources to people who need them (imagine an officer that made sure an unhoused person was aware of the resources available to them and would have a follow-up visit by a social worker to get them free housing and other basic rights).
And most importantly, redirect funding into preventative, society-level changes. Reduce the likelihood that someone is in crisis in the first place by making sure they have housing, food, community, and any mental health support needed. Cops are the last responders, not first responders. By the time they can theoretically do anything to help, multiple systems have already failed a person - or were themselves defunded in order to make more room for capitalists and cops.
Also, always remember that when seconds matter, the police are just minutes away. They don't prevent or directly resolve anything bad 99.9% of the time. The bad thing that happened occurred because of how the person doing the bad thing got to that state, because of the social interactions to which we are subjected (that person in that place with that other person), the material conditions that make a given bad action incentivized, and cops didn't do shit to make it better, they're only going to show up and take a report and forget you. More likely, they actively contributed to the bad thing by feeding the mass incarceration system, by helping to create black markets and selective enforcement that parasitize poverty, by making peoples' lives that much worse through harassment and deprivation.
Just hire an arsonist I guess?
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emts with de-escalation training? safety officers who exist to actually protect the public and help people in need?
literally anything?
why wouldn’t safety officers also do this?
instead of training them to think they're lone wolf badasses who exist to beat thugs into paste you'd train them to protect and cherish human life
basically totally uproot the current policing culture and change it into its complete opposite. also you don't arm them with military equipment
Dumb liberal framing. We don't need a replacement for police, we simply remove them and society instantly gets significantly better.
The "good" stuff that cops are supposedly tasked with (though not in reality) can be done by specialists who are newly and uniquely trained to do such tasks. But that's not 'replacing' the police, that's filling a niche which police did not fill to begin with.
Social workers, real mental health support groups, anti-poverty initiatives, activities and training for homeless
Traffic control, social workers for most calls, a much less independent apparatus for responding to active violence, chilling tf out about things like drug use
Basically, anything that pigs currently do, except done by people who are actually under a directive to help and have no more authorization than anyone else to kill. Where such authorization is necessary, they should absolutely not be an unaccountable gang of fascists. Then of course, the way we treat minor crimes already amounts to a war against poor people so we just should stop (and [REDACTED] those responsible for running the 'justice' system we have now)
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a town watch with hefty halberds and cockney accents. 'oi you gotta loicense for that murderin' ya done did?'
if we find that society can't function without a certain amount of child murderer, maybe someone could create an app for it
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