I've thought that Portland's "street response team" [†] is a good idea that addresses much of this, at least if the idea is taken seriously and extrapolated. It helps address the militarization of police by allowing the police to be/stay that way, but then NOT sending police out for everything. The composition of the response team can be dynamic, maybe even self-organizing to some extent. And if it were extrapolated to (e.g.) groups like CERT (of which Renee' was a member back in Oregon), neighborhood watch, suburban/corporate security services, etc. it could be a serious approach to "defunding" the police. (Defund in quotes because it's not really defunding them, just changing the way it's all organized.)
[†] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/amid-spike-in-911-calls-tied-to-homelessness-street-roots-pitches-response-teams/283-cb0ee8bc-f0e1-4c22-984e-f1c0244e9a7a On 6/10/20 2:58 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > My "intellectual" interest is in how self-organizing principles and emergence > operate in social contexts... on both sides of the debate here, as is being > alluded to here already. When Law Enforcement gets significantly defunded, > what fills the vacuum left by that? -- ☣ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
