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Or is it the other way around?
You mean without the strong police, there would be an upcoming rebellion by the schoolkids?
I mean, this isn’t specific to capitalism. Pretty sure north Korea is similar.
This is just baseline authoritarianism.
Pretty sure north Korea is similar.
The NYPD has a bigger budget than the DPRK. And New York hasn’t been under siege by Pennsylvania for the last 80 years.
The NYPD is also not in constant famine, they’re one of the richest cities on the planet.
That’s like being surprised rent is more expensive in midtown Manhattan than in rural Texas.
The NYPD is also not in constant famine, they’re one of the richest cities on the planet.
Because they’re an international trading hub at the central of a global empire.
North Korea is a bombed out backwater with more economic sanctions on it than Cuba, whose people spent the last 70 years gradually rebuilding after the US literally bombed them back to the stone age.
Even then, NYers are getting shot over proximity to fare evasion. Korea’s rough, but I’ve yet to hear of anyone executed for failing to pay for a bus ticket.
you don’t like cops, because they take a lot of resources for mostly nothing
I hate cops because I’m an anarchist and think the state shouldn’t have a monopoly on violence
we’re not the same
GOOD! If those Cops DIDNT have all that Gear then they would just WAIT OUTSIDE if there was ever a School Shooter MURDERING all the Children inside!
I get what you are doing here but I think you are misled. The police has a monopoly on violence to protect the state apparatus and the ruling class. Protecting normal citizens is a means to an end of that, it never was the goal. The US police originated in a force that brought back run away slaves. Are we talking about run away slaves? Is there private property at risk? Is the school shooter threatened any organ of the state? So why bother? TLDR ACAB
We wouldn’t be the most powerful nation on earth of it were any other way.