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As a rapper, I totally agree. I'll go with: decentralized community defense would be far more effective than the police. And, you know. Wouldn't be them.
I worry that more decentralization in us law enforcement would be even worse. It's far too easy for violent cops to shuffle from agency to agency with a paid vacation between bouts of oppression.
We don't even have standards for major things like rules of engagement with deadly force aligned nationwide. Further decentralization sounds a bit terrifying.
I'm thinking, more like, you and your neighbors arm yourselves and be in each other's business.
like a militia? or a lynch mob?
Yup. I envision those existing. For example, In the area I come from, the "Bikers Against Child Abuse" exist. Maybe there's a Bikers Against Bikers Against Child Abuse? It's not pretty across the board, and if you peel back a single layer of the world right now, neither is it.
yeah I really don't want a future of dueling militias. hard pass.
Broadly gestures at the world
I'm going to add to this. Any homogenous system you suggest rejects the subjective nature of morality, and needs to be enforced through force. Unevolving, nonreactive, subject to rule by the majority. Consistently, we see that civilians favor policies most of us would agree with, but money interests prevail. I'm the Soviet Union, beaurocratic interests prevailed. That's just what you get with centralized power, and humans needing to fulfill a role to provide for their families. Try to rally your neighbors in your immigrant community that black people shouldn't be allowed in. Then, try to rally them around lowering rent. Finally, try to convince a piggie (the long arm of billionaires) to literally negotiate a single thing, or show up in a timely manner, or not forge documents.