Thursday, January 7, 2010

Four Ways for a Police Force

Let's say you had a town of 50,000 people who all agreed to live by once complete system.

What would a police force look like in each of these four systems?

Commune: Complete public ownership, average citizen contributes greatly to management
Social-democracy: Mostly public ownership, large professional government
Conservative-republic: Mostly private ownership, small delegating government
Syndicate: Complete private ownership, average citizen is expected to self-manage

Questions:

1)Privatization of police, anarcho-capitalists? Who would pay for it?

2) How much should the general public and police work together? Block clubs, neighborhood watch?

3) Last month in Cleveland, 11 women were discovered, carved up, in a Black man's house. People were quick to blame the police and call racism. Nine of the women's families never filed missing person's reports. Where does the responsibility lie for the public to enforce the law and look out for each other? How do you cultivate that sense of shared responsibility?

4) How do you mitigate youth violence?

5) How do you mitigate rape and domestic abuse?

6) What drugs are really "victimless". Which are not?

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