[sneak]

I support this piecemeal protest, but ultimately we really just need to defund and abolish the police in the US as they are known today and replace them with a new and different organization dedicated to public safety, that is actually legally required to help people (the police are not), and that has huge consequences for integrity failures such as lying.

[bzzzt]

Yeah, because the second time everything will work as intended? Whatever you measure there are always going to be some loopholes causing unintended behaviour. Why would imposing those consequences on the current police system not give your desired outcome?

[SpicyLemonZest]

The "not legally required to help" thing sounds silly in the abstract, but most people interested in police reform are going to want to keep it. A police force that's required to help people is, by definition, a police force that can be sued for not policing aggressively enough.

[sneak]

Most of the issues with police today are not that they are enforcing the law too aggressively, it is that they are closing out call tickets too aggressively.

They are entirely different things: https://sneak.berlin/20200628/the-problem-with-police-in-ame...