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Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Some kind of police is necessary. Public order needs to be kept, laws enforced, crime fought, dangers prevented. A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

What kind of powers, tasks, oversight, and so on police gets is the issue.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

Maybe it’s pedantic of me to say this but was not a state monopoly on violence and there certainly isn’t now. A lot of goon squads are composed of private security forces.

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- chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There should be a state monopoly on violence, and that violence should be heavily regulated.
  
  Sadly, neither of those statements are currently true.
  
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