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We don't need cops. The owner class needs cops. That's why nothing will ever be done about their behavior, they aren't for us.
No.
You do need police officers and don't be so dumb to say that you don't. Unless you're 13 and trying to be edgy, in which case I'll just ask you to limit yourself to TikTok or something.
You need police against criminals, you need police to enforce the rules of our society. The problem is that US police officers are just a major shit show.
Maybe that is why so many people shout these dumb slogans because they don't even know or remember what a real actual police officer is and does.
If the laws supported the people there would be no need for cops to kill the people because there would be no conflict between the people and the laws.
Nurses serve the same clientele as cops and we don't murder our patients.
Uhhh, speaking as someone who has physically put his body in the way of cops trying to rob people of their civil rights, many times, doing so while accepting that cops do fulfill a societal need (and thus being completely non violent towards said cops), the idea that there is a utopia where "the laws" will not be in conflict with "the people" is a very, very difficult thing to even start to imagine. Can you describe such a situation, even in one instance?
If we didn't have the cops we'd have to fix the poverty that generated the crime, but since we have violent muscle to beat down on the impoverished we never will.
All violent crime isn't caused by poverty. Plenty of people who aren't impoverished do heinous things. We would need some sort of security enforcement no matter what.
The decay in our society that causes violent crime is always related to one kind of poverty or another. People raised in healthy communities with security and support don't lash out violently. Affluent killers have a poverty of the spirit caused by having more at the expense of others.