Police Investigating Shooting Inside Seattle's 'No Cop,' CHAZ Zone

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19. The crime rate will go down significantly

But one of the biggest things we can do is divide police powers amongst many smaller, separate governmental entities.

Have a small group of investigators that work for the local prosecutors office in charge of investigating crime (similar to what detectives do now).

Create a state-level group whose sole function is to apprehend wanted criminals but other than that have no enforcement interactions with the community.

Create a new first responder, at the state level, that does not take any enforcement action / arrest except in the cases of violence contemporaneous with the calls for service.

Give municipalities / counties a traffic enforcement division that has authority to issue traffic citations but no arrest powers.

Create community based crime reporting locations where folks can report local, non-violent crimes that will then be referred to the aforementioned investigators at the prosecutors office.

By splitting up all these police duties into smaller, hyper-focused organizations, we will minimize the negative encounters that police have on the lives of minorities.

Invest the billions in savings by removing police into addiction recovery programs, social safety net programs and mental health care.

While we are at it we should model our prison system after highly successful countries like Norway.