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> We can always vote and legislate for something better.

How? Which political party or independents promote a policy to reduce police powers?

And even if there were, or are, any politicians with such a policy we ought to be more suspicious of them!




> How? Which political party or independents promote a policy to reduce police powers?

Policing is mostly local, so I think this is an area where there's a real chance to make things better. National politics are hopelessly tribal in the US, but city/county level politics are much less so. Go to city council meetings. Pay attention, and complain if they try to buy leftover military hardware like a BearCat[1]. Vote for and talk to your councillors. Organize a petition to de-militarize your local police force.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenco_BearCat


The trick is to spin it better.

It's not "reducing police power", it's "even better training, tools and techniques for our hard-working police officers".


Yeah, it is not going to happen through such ways. No way. Whoever would want to do it would be getting pressure from influential people on multiple fronts. Let us play with the thought though. Who would go through such risks? What would they gain from it?




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