[JRandomFreeper]

The whole approach to policing has been wrong-headed from the beginning of 'professional policing'.

Since it doesn't work, as your own stats and comments acknowledge, it's time to do something different.

Starting with cutting off funding to buy lethal equipment for local, state, and federal employees.

/johnny

[Flycatcher]

Starting with cutting off funding to buy lethal equipment for local, state, and federal employees.

So what would you have law enforcement carry to defend themselves against attack?

Wet noodles?

[Zhang Fei]

The whole approach to policing has been wrong-headed from the beginning of 'professional policing'. Since it doesn't work, as your own stats and comments acknowledge, it's time to do something different. Starting with cutting off funding to buy lethal equipment for local, state, and federal employees.

Why not start by emptying the prisons? Why not decriminalize theft, rape, murder and so on? Surely the appeal of crime lies not in material gain or the satisfaction of violent urges, but the illicit thrill of breaking the law. Make the conduct legal, take away that thrill and the tragically-misguided will surely walk the straight and narrow.