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In reply to the discussion: #BlackLivesMatter: Activists come up with a plan to end police killings. Here it is. [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Also, and somewhat counter-intuitively, we need to see more hires for the police force. We need more local residents of the community being recruited. More money should be spent on training (point number 7) and police who are at risk should only patrol in pairs.
Ending the for profit policing and the militarization of the police are extremely long overdue. I can remember back in the '90s the AAA saying they would provide maps steering their customers away from municipalities that abused their police powers to ticket, search, and seize.
And for decades now we've been inflicted with instances of masked, heavy weapons at the ready, SWAT teams using no knock procedures to smash in doors only to find they are at the wrong address.
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