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Matt S's avatar

"This is common sense, which leads me to suspect that the people here raving about hordes and laxisme don’t want the riots to end so much as they want the pleasure of ranting about laxisme."

This is probably an important part of why I want to support your work. The internet is so full of people, so desperate for likes, that they'll become indistinguishable from a bot. Thank you for challenging those club houses, and showing people there are exits.

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Raven Onthill's avatar

"But if you put enough calm police on the ground, the riots stop."

Well, yes, if you have a supply of good cops. But that's part of the problem - at least in the USA we do not. We've got tons of cops and they make things worse. And, yes, enough good cops trained at de-escalation would probably prevent riots. If US forces were mostly good cops, there probably would be many fewer riots. In the USA, this would also imply less-repressive laws - as is widely known, the drug war is a racist disaster.

Maybe matters are different in France, but at least in the USA I cannot support a massive expansion of the police forces without extensive reforms. I don't see any sign that those reforms are coming so I think you've moved the problem rather than solved it. Yes, if you had mostly good cops and enough of them, decent laws and a decent justice system, there wouldn't be a problem with riots. But I don't know where we get good cops, especially since brutal policing and an intensely punitive "justice" system is popular here.

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