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End the war on drugs. Legalize marijuana. Consider legalizing all drugs, or at the very least treat the possession of drugs as a disease, not a crime.


Second, stop the militarization of our local police force. The police should not be buying and be given weapons and military equipment that is designed for war. Cops are not warriors, the police are peace keepers, not an occupying army.


Increase the barriers to employment. Cops should be 4 year college grads and should be paid accordingly. Lower the number of police officers, but increase the quality of the staff.


Finally, remove the profit motive from policing. The number of tickets should not be a motivation to the officer. There are other ways to determine the success and areas of opportunity within a police staff. The number of tickets you write and the number of people you haul to jail should not be the primary method of judging the success of community policing.


These are all libertarian ideals, less power, less staffing, more efficient, and more subservient to the community.

 

I agree with the first point, and decriminalization of pot is long overdue.

 

As for the militarization of the police departments, the Dallas sniper lost his life to a bomb-delivering robot.  I can't, right now, agree with giving police departments less sophisticated tools for killing bad people.

 

If you're going to increase the barriers to employment by the police force, you're going to have to pay them more, which brings us to your 3rd point about reducing the profit motive:

 

If you want better police, and need to pay them more, you'll have to pay more in taxes or reduce services in another area of your government.  Which do you prefer?

 

As this is my first post in this topic, I'd also like to say that what the gunman did is completely reprehensible and evil, and is own fault, not the fault of the president, the police, the NRA, or Black Lives Matter movement.

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