My impression of a lot of police work is that it's essential, mundane and nonviolent. They're really not striding around looking for people to shoot; at least in the Boston area, they're not. If they were, I would have been shot by now for being That Crazy Homeless Bitch, as I have been presented for years to millions of people by hateblogs about me which host websites refuse to take down.
I don't subscribe to the "bad apples" theory; I have already said that I don't. Jobs with power and weapons are always going to attract a higher percentage of people who enjoy having direct, personal power over others and who enjoy violence for its own sake. If the police departments are defunded and disbanded, eventually most of the people from the community who try to take the place of police officers will get sick of it and a higher than average percentage of those who don't get sick of it will be just like the control freak, professional police officers whom they replaced.
It's obvious that police culture in the United States needs to be made less macho and more intelligent. It's not obvious to me how defunding and disbanding police departments is going to do anything other than greenlight criminal activity from mugging to organized crime.
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