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it's good re-branding. Makes the left-libertarian alliance possible.
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Honestly, I wouldn't. Abolish it all. For extreme situations separate out the responsibility of managing violent interactions (i.e. bomb threats, mass shootings) to a tactical group paired w/ trained social workers who would handle taking those people under some kind of "arrest".
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If we can't get to that stage, re-configure to be non-lethally armed bodyguards (as individuals! Not units) for trained, specialist social workers. They only respond in situations with demonstrable physical threat to another life, and ALWAYS paired w/s.w.'s, ALWAYS non-lethally.
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Police are called in when violent crimes are in progress. Otherwise there's no use in having armed people roaming around looking for quotas to make and situations to escalate.
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De-arm the police
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95% would be better handled by ppl with expertise. Remove: * Traffic citations/enforcement (automate mostly) & collisions * Homeless outreach * Mental-health crisis * Domestic abuse/sexual assault * Petty theft, car break-ins, bike theft, etc. * Addiction/drugs
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Unarmed police can respond to people being violent/threatening (but who are also unarmed). Armed police could handle bomb threats, mass shootings, those types of rare situations. That's about it.
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Detectives only at the city PD level. Fund unarmed regulatory social work dept to handle car violations, sanitation, housing, etc. Fund EMS for almost everything else including mental health. County police are available in case of escalation but w/o jurisdiction unless called.
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Detectives handle property crime, murder, rape, assault, etc for any after the fact cases. If they need backup to apprehend they can bring in county tactical teams or can escalate to county, state or federal enforcement if merited.
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