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Victims of Phoenix police don’t buy that cops can reform themselves - Phoenix says it will reform its police without federal oversight. People mistreated by cops will believe it when they see it.

Victims of Phoenix police don’t buy that cops can reform themselves

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What federal oversight?
- What oversight at all? Isn't self-investigation the tired joke that is our reality of police brutality?
- That's the whole point of the article
  Phoenix officials have offered assurances that police reforms will continue, despite President Donald Trump’s order ending federal scrutiny of alleged misconduct by local law enforcement.
Police corruption and lack of accountability is a feature, not a bug, of the system.
I think this goes well beyond "reform" and more like "rebuild from scratch."
- Why rebuild it?
  
  I don't want the power vacuum left by removing policing to be filled by private enterprise. Amazon run police would be worse, probably.
  "Included now in amazon prime: Same day detective work when you're robbed! Non-prime users pay $88, and the detective will arrive within 14 days."
  I think I remember a sketch about this from ages ago with stephen fry in it.

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