Sure the reasons for crime like poverty and lack of education and opportunities need to be addressed. That’s a long term thing though. The entrenched organizations and culture of crime need to fought as well. That’s what you need police for.

Defunding the police empowers organized crime to take even more control in affected communities.

Barely trained conscripts as police are a terrible idea. This would get more people killed.

Maybe this works in a medieval town of 2000 people. We don’t live in that world anymore.

Mirror for the text?

Talking to some inhabitants of inner city high crime areas has changed my mind on defunding the police. Those most affected by high crime in their areas, would like a better trained police that actually gets crime under control.

Defunding the police seems to me like a white college educated middle class idea.

These are advance troops that will figure out logistics, where it makes sense to deploy a bigger force. What they need, and infrastructure.

Signal is still pretty limited with its UI compared to Telegram and WhatsApp. More of a sideways move.

Pretty much. Put them in, wait a couple of seconds and then push.

Why?

Thanks for the list of apps to avoid. None of my apps that have transitioned to Liquid Glass have become better in any way. Most are much worse. They waste space, hide functionality, and look ugly while doing it.

The Venezuelan President Maduro was captured by a special American police unit and flown to the US.

This decapitation strike might mean no war for regime change necessary.

Mods will delete your comment and ban you immediately if you don’t follow the party line.

Actual discourse between different ideas, convictions, and worldviews is suprisojgly rare between Lemmyings.

Fedora KDE or dishonor.

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Of course the sun prefers the celebrations held on shortest and longest days.

I think so. Using it with OrbStack was pretty easy.