• Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca
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    Any group of people who are given power over others will inevitably become “the police”.

    Maybe a grassroots effort is made to pick people from your local area to be the police, it might seem rosy for a couple of years, but they will still be the police, they will still become corrupted by the power they wield.

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      Which is why the entire community is responsible not a group of people.

      And no, you can look at autonomous regions in Mexico that have been doing this for decades now and still going ‘rosy’. I understand you have a need to rationalise why the system we use must be the best, but reality says otherwise.

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        That’s just not true though right? You’re making up falsehoods. The entire community meaning every single person, is not responsible for keeping the peace and security. It is still only a group of people from within that community.

        Where I live our police are local and our police are chill and we don’t tend to have many conflicts or issues with them. I agree with keeping police as local as possible. I disagree with pretending that a local community electing a local group of people to ensure law and order is fundamentally different that a police force.

        And no I’m not going to “look at autonomous regions in Mexico” aka “do my own research”. It’s up to you to provide evidence for claims that you are making. You tell me how exactly it’s different rather than taking me down into your logical fallacy.