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3. One of the main functions of modern US police is to preserve THAT distribution of wealth, land, and resources that resulted from THAT pillage.
4. Police are the mechanism by which some people can live comfortably with a spare bedroom or three, knowing that if a houseless person showed up at their door, they could bring down metal handcuffs and a jail cell on that person if the person refused to leave.
5. There are more vacant homes in Los Angeles now, for example, than people who are houseless. Such inequality would not be possible without the threat of police violence.
6. One of the most important functions police serve is enforcing who can be where and with what. If police were not willing to enforce wealth hoarding, people who own things could not maintain their claims to land.
7. Restaurants and grocery stores who sell food could not deny it to the hungry, and our society would be forced into a different set of relationships.
8. This is a violence of a kind, and it is the constant threat of this state-sanctioned violence that allows for so much more structural violence associated with poverty and inequality to exist. But this isn’t what the media talks about when discussing police.
And rightly so, given that police salary is paid by the owners of those homes. Property rights are an extension of the rights on your own body, and decent people and societies (ie everyone who isn't a radical leftist) understand that and uphold that.
Consider a society without police, say, rural Somalia. If I show up at a Somalian farmer's door, help myself to his harvest and slaughter one of his goats for meat, what do you think is going to happen?
seems cart-before-the-horse-ish.. shouldn’t we be abolishing inequality until police become obsolete instead of abolishing police and hoping everyone steals an equal share of property?
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