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What slaves do we need to catch?
Yeah, I get the reference. What never seems to get addressed is how legitimate criminals get dealt with.
So far the "abolish the police" ideal has all the thought of the "get rid of Obamacare" by Republicans. As much as you don't like the current system, giving no concept of what would replace it is just theatrics. It's ideological masturbation. And that's what my initial question was, that in all this has been ignored with references to how bad police are, and comparing them to tumors, or pointing to their origins.
In this post-police world, who enforces law?
There will never be a 'post-police world'. That's an impossible daydream, like honest government or peace on earth. Always civilization will need someone to deal with troublemakers, and always it will be ugly work, involving the use of force.
To solve the ongoing and increasing problem of law enforcement routinely breaking the law, police must be overseen by people who aren't themselves police, police worshipers, police buddies, or ex-police.
The judicial system.
You've not even defined the question. Maybe you should humble down the presentation.
You know what I'm asking, and you know the judicial system cannot enforce law, they can only pass judgement on it. Enforcement requires force. What provides the necessary force to either keep people from or hold people accountable for rape, murder, burglary, theft, assault, etc.
Who even gets someone into a courtroom for the judicial system to make judgement?
The attempts to evade such a ridiculously simple question shows why this ideology is not worth considering until those who believe it actually consider it themselves.
And to be perfectly clear, I was (and still am) wanting a legitimate answer to the question. Maybe I'm missing something? Maybe some think social pressure would work in absence of force. Maybe some believe in the equality of "rich people already do it undeterred, so poor people should be able to as well." Maybe... what? Vigilantes? I don't know. Perhaps I lack the unbridled faith in humanity that leads people to believe in a world without any enforcement of law, or the imagination to come up with some form of law enforcement without a force that upholds law. But nobody else has offered anything, so what am I to do but speculate?
Is that humble enough?