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It's happened in Minneapolis as well after the George Floyd.

The solution to this is either:

- setup a second security force to gradually replace them

or

- subdivide the coverage map into different districts, suss out the districts with poor performing management, then merge the territories of bad areas under the management of good areas

or

- subdivide responsibilities between violent crime, petty crime, and mundane enforcement like traffic, with separate departments for each, and tackle cleaning them up separately.

Really the notion of taking the same "trained" cop for all the roles in an urban area is pretty stupid. Specialized enforcement roles are likely a better solution.

Shadow defunding, without calling it defunding, is also another weapon, but of course Minneapolis blew that by outright calling it defunding.

But really the drug war is what fuels corruption and excessive power. Remove the drug war, and it would kneecap massive amounts of abuse.



Wait, cops in America aren't divided by roles? Huh, Til.


They'll have different duties, like traffic cop and patrol and detective, but they are all part of the same department and most go through the same training "school".

And, of course, they are all part of the same union.

By subdividing into distinct departments, it is the basic divide and conquer. And you can replace departments more readily: keep the traffic and crime investigation units, but replace the patrol cops that are refusing to do their jobs.


Not officially. One of the effects of this is that if you crash your car, the guy who shows up to file a report has a loaded gun on his hip.




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