Police have a culture of coming to a problem with their guns drawn, and that is not exactly necissary, a step back there is a good idea.
The video of the guy answering his door to the cops who had their guns drawn because of a domestic violence phone call and getting shot is one of the thousands of recorded examples that we can tone that shit down a bit.
But we also need to refund our police department and invest in better solutions because, yea tasers are like pepper spray, occasionally good. And they, and we, deserve better.
The problem with our police department is not unlike any of our governments problem, and any libertarian would agree what that problem is:
It's easy to make beurocracy, but very hard to undo it.
And the police dept. has its share of broken beurocracy, that needs to be "defunded", and then reinvested back into it, so that it can work well again.
It's a mess, and it just needs to be reorganized, like any goverment agency does from time to time.
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