The state’s top court will settle disputes between Rochester, Syracuse, New York City, and their police unions next week in three cases that could reshape police discipline across the state.
In short, we’d likely all be better off with abolishment of the current police and a small, investigative force to solve major crimes. Otherwise, the police are the most dangerous person with a gun in a majority of situations. Don’t just take my word for it, check my math. Based on some light Internet searching, there are roughly 800k police in the US, and combined they kill, per the Washington Post, more than 1k people a year. I wasn’t a math major in college, but doesn’t that average out to roughly one in 800 cops killing somebody every year?
I don’t think anybody short of soldiers in war have that high a kill ratio. Ignoring Covid and car accidents, police are at significantly lower risk of dying on the job than many other occupations, especially food delivery drivers. So given they’re at low risk of death and they’re killing so many people, maybe, just maybe, the current role of police needs to be drastically changed.
NYPD officers went on strike in 1971, and crime rates didn’t go up.
https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/12/the-week-without-police-what-we-can-learn-from-the-1971-police-strike/
When the NYPD temporarily “changed approach” from “proactive policing” (so called broken windows policing), major crime reports went down:
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html
In short, we’d likely all be better off with abolishment of the current police and a small, investigative force to solve major crimes. Otherwise, the police are the most dangerous person with a gun in a majority of situations. Don’t just take my word for it, check my math. Based on some light Internet searching, there are roughly 800k police in the US, and combined they kill, per the Washington Post, more than 1k people a year. I wasn’t a math major in college, but doesn’t that average out to roughly one in 800 cops killing somebody every year?
I don’t think anybody short of soldiers in war have that high a kill ratio. Ignoring Covid and car accidents, police are at significantly lower risk of dying on the job than many other occupations, especially food delivery drivers. So given they’re at low risk of death and they’re killing so many people, maybe, just maybe, the current role of police needs to be drastically changed.