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hunter

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2. Why do small towns like that even have police departments?
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:13 PM
Sep 2022

Too often they are up to no good.

The entire nation of New Zealand has one police department. I wonder what California would be like if we had the same.

Would our police be more effective or less effective, more corrupt or less corrupt, more racist or less racist, more violent or less violent, more fascist or less fascist than the police many areas of California now suffer?

I grew up in a small affluent city that was 99% white. It seemed the primary purpose of the police department was keeping it that way. They were notorious for DWBs and other forms of harassment.

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