Disarm The Police 

@mawr that's how London does it, iirc. If an armed response is actually needed, they have a separate unit for that. Works fine

Disarm The Police 

@Doephin It just makes so much more sense. The culture of American police is to value their life above all others as first priority and to de-escalate as a secondary action. If their first response to danger wasn't to grab a tool specifically designed to kill people, maybe they wouldn't... y'know.. kill so many people?

Disarm The Police 

@mawr Yup. Most US police are more like occasionally useful highway robbers than public servants, and they get training that makes them so paranoid.

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