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by Mediterraneo10 1825 days ago
It is true that even among minorities support for the existence of an active police force remains high. However, the principles of policing by consent still hold: a community deserves to be policed by police it recognizes as members of that community, not outsiders, and which have the community's best interests at heart. There is still a lot of work to be done in the US regarding these things.
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recursivedoubts 1825 days ago
That appears to be a general argument for self-determination or segregation, according to tastes.
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lostcolony 1825 days ago
No more so than laws about elected officials actually living in the districts they're representing.
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Mediterraneo10 1825 days ago
The concept of policing by consent arose in a city which, at that time in the 19th century, was not riven by racial conflict. To claim that it is an argument for segregation is ahistorical. Self-determination maybe, but the concept was originally put forward in order to improve outcomes, not for the political liberation of the local people per se.
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