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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you didn't have the police, you can imagine hoodlums running around and slashing people's tires just for the hell of it. Just imagine.
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Haha! That was “strategic.” Listen, I get it. Everyone agrees we need to have a fire department. But what if we found out that, while some of the firefighters were good at their job, others were not good at putting out fires. And, in fact, some of them actually ended up starting fires! Sometimes on purpose! And then we learned that they were overwhelmingly starting fires in black homes, and were actually killing young black people with their fires. And that this has been going on for DECADES with little or no fixing of the problem. We would probably think we need to abolish the fire department. But I am also on the board of a domestic prevention organization, and the police have been very helpful in the eyes of our advocates and staff in approaching these cases with sensitivity and effectiveness (it has definitely not always been that way and took a long time to get there). So until I hear of a plan that will ensure that, for example, victims of domestic violence will be protected, I will reserve judgment.
