[alisonatwork]

On the flip side, there are plenty of countries that do just have a national police force, or a handful of regional departments, and don't have tens of thousands of independent police forces like America does. They tend to do just fine.

[hattar]

Any with a population and land spread comparable to the US? I imagine that would make more sense in a small country with low diversity of terrain/population/etc.

[tmccrary55]

Plus a national police force is basically illegal and unconstitutional in the US.

[banannaise]

Gosh, who's going to notify the feds in Portland of this?