I strongly feel that athority figures like police with guns are not the best people to deal with homelesness, drug users, mental health episodes. I think that their use does more harm than good.
In traffic monitoring I think they are both overkill and completely uneffective.
What are situations where police are the best people for this job. And are effective in it?
In their current form? Well, on those occasions where we have a protest or a march, cops stop traffic and block streets for us. Cops are useful if you're white and want to report a crime or traffic accident.
Saturday protestors demanded the legalization of marijuana and immediate end to cops searching cars for drugs in Des Moines Iowa...cops lie say they see impaired driving or "smell" drugs driving while black stops by the hundreds annually in Des Moines
Shoot outs with bank robbers and mass shooters....chasing Bonnie and Clyde.....actually my dad was deputized for a day with his private pistol and 2way radio....Buck the mechanic souping up fast cars with wide tires was shot dead in the head Dexter Iowa with Blanche covered in blood crying for her dead man sat behind a huge log....Barrow & Bonnie escaped the ambush that day weeks later died inside their car filled with bullets
police are needed but they need to get back to the community. It's time for foot patrols again. And they need to lay off the blacks.
Why are black folks given much harsher prison sentences for the same crimes a whites? this needs to stop.
Ans as Bobby said the alt right groups need to be disarmed. Hell, the police need to disarm. Ban assault weapons!
Countries where the police force does not carry guns:
Ireland
Norway
Iceland
United Kingdom
New Zealand
How do police handle violence in countries where officers do not carry guns?
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And they are not less effective and the police officers are not killed in large numbers because of not being able to defend themselves.
@MsAl
All of these countries have strong gun control.
How do police handle violence in countries where officers do not carry guns?
@LiterateHiker Guns do complicate things here ☹
Cleaning bird droppings off picnic tables in public parks.
Raking leaves in national forests.
Making little ice cubes out of big ice cubes in forced labor camps in Alaska.
Cleaning sewers with toothbrushes.
Picking up litter.
Making gravel out of granite boulders in forced labor camps.
I could probably think up more....