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I have an idea:
Maybe defund the police and redirect those funding to militias?
I mean, maybe that'd be worse in rural areas, but in my blue city, I'm pretty sure I can trust a well trained and regulated militia made of the everyday people in my neighborhood more than the cops. Probably much faster response times too, and much less trigger happy (militias don't have legal immunity like cops do, so that's a huge plus).
I feel like a militia would be less detached from society than cops are. Being a cop is just a life time thing, they spend so much time with other cops that they have basically a different social circle completely detached from the reality the average person goes through. In my proposal, militias would still hold regular jobs for most of the time, but would have certain times be on militia duty to protect their assigned community, and the duty would get rotated between different people. It would be like the National Guard, but instead, they would be directly accountable to their community (as opposed to some Governor, or POTUS, or the Mayor).
(It's a wild idea, sure, but depending on what type of people live in your area, it could work, and actually stop crime while not being an organization that is gonna murder a bunch of people.)
Sounds like an improvement, and nowhere near as nutty as what we have now — police out of control, above the law, answerable to no-one but other police, who are answerable to no-one but other police.