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Pop wrote (edited )

Strong communities make police obsolete

included in that is decent accountability/reparations processes

f/accountability
f/reparations

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ratbum wrote (edited )

I agree with this in many cases, but I can't imagine there not being a need for specialist forensics in certain cases. I also think there will emerge another power structure that will take over through the use of violence.

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Pop wrote

forensics doesn't have to have anything to do with police, it's just a kind of inquiry/investigation

I'm not convinced it's desirable in an anarchist society but insofar as it is, it needn't be tied to authority or its violence, and would have to be made accessible (i.e. significantly de-specialised)

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ziq wrote

This has nothing to do with the police, what you're talking about is scientists.

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ratbum wrote

The detectives and criminologists who piece this stuff together ore pretty specific kinds of scientists. The kind you only have because they're needed by law enforcement.

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ziq wrote

Says you. Why do they need to be governed by the police to function?

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