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@darcher @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj No? But I'm not on my city council, while I also understand that every local arrangement is different. I'll be putting my thought energy to better use of I focus on my area of expertise. Right now, my local police are doing pretty well, and I'm happy with recent efforts toward reform. 7 comments
@janisf ouch. But that is up to you. Part of what I'm getting at is that the systemic problem is systemic so "solving it locally" rarely works, and then tends to be short-lived. If the city were the boss of the cops, solving it locally, at least temporarily, would happen all the time. There's like 1m people within city limits here, but in a lot of ways it's more small-town than cities of comparable size. So we happen coincidentally not to have as many cop problems. @darcher @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj I think we both know the patterns that end up coagulating around gun-toting (e.g.) Kentucky politicians who say they are also concurrently some sort of mechanic *and* engineer. Neither one of us has the magic pill that's going alleviate the anxiety that drives the insecurity around these guys never being able to control the world enough to please the imaginary women in their heads. It's these guys that drive *me* to crazy rambling rants. Guns down, boys. @janisf sadly, I agree. No magic pill, just a festering multi-generational cultural dysfunction. Even if the political will and the political coalitions were already in place, it would still take many years to repair. @janisf yeah, it's wild how that works. I didn't have any real exposure to Christianity until my early teens, and then it was all people who took "WWJD" very seriously indeed - Unitarians and Liberation Catholics and whatnot. So I *still* struggle sometimes with the way a lot of Christian churches are openly hostile to Christian scripture and teachings. |
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@janisf @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj that's, uh...good?
I mean, our local cops are great too, by US municipal PD standards. They hardly ever kill anyone, and their relations with the community are about as good as you can possibly expect in a major metro. But that's not setting the bar very high.