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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net

To be clear, I’m not saying that this uniformly exists, anywhere, and police forces certainly cancel/do commit arbitrary violence, but the idea, compared to what we had before, is pretty damn sound

sep 1, 2025, 1:43 am • 64 2

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jben1990.bsky.social @jben1990.bsky.social

I mean, the Peelian principles of policing are actually pretty good!* The problem is, very few police departments have actually *followed* them! *The ones introduced with the first police force in 1830.

sep 1, 2025, 1:48 am • 14 2 • view
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Ash @horny-am-main.bsky.social

policing is a lot like communism - the idea was invented in the 1800s and everything since then has been a continuous failure of implementation :p

sep 1, 2025, 4:00 am • 5 1 • view