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by uejfiweun 1252 days ago
I do tend to think that the whole anti-police movement was by design, that is to say it was deliberately fanned by multinationals, media conglomerates, and the government. And it's because it's time to move our antiquated law enforcement mechanisms to the future. We don't really NEED police anymore - we have the technological capabilities to achieve law enforcement via pervasive surveillance analyzed by AI. It would probably be a much more efficient and effective system than fully human based enforcement. Apart from highly skilled individuals used for SWAT type stuff like hostage situations, I think the jobs of most cops could be outsourced to a bunch of security cameras and some programs running on the cloud.