Listen, I get it that the Austin PD, as the example here, are doing their best. I get it that they aren’t their own ultimate masters. All those points are made. I’m also GLAD that the APD are doing what they can within their rules to warn residents that these actions are happening. Yes thats good.
However, thats approach of harm reduction, not harm avoidance. The good folks of the APD are being used as tools to carry out the harm though. They may not want to, but they are. Is anyone claiming different? The state doesn’t need to take over the APD to get the harm the state wants done. The question, and its a rhetorical one, is “where is the line?”. At what point is it better to say “no, I won’t do that” and be replaced by the state? I fear that day will come, but it needs to be examined now, before the state asks for something worse.
Dude… He’s explaining to you the shitty and hard situation there and you’re just being obtuse
Listen, I get it that the Austin PD, as the example here, are doing their best. I get it that they aren’t their own ultimate masters. All those points are made. I’m also GLAD that the APD are doing what they can within their rules to warn residents that these actions are happening. Yes thats good.
However, thats approach of harm reduction, not harm avoidance. The good folks of the APD are being used as tools to carry out the harm though. They may not want to, but they are. Is anyone claiming different? The state doesn’t need to take over the APD to get the harm the state wants done. The question, and its a rhetorical one, is “where is the line?”. At what point is it better to say “no, I won’t do that” and be replaced by the state? I fear that day will come, but it needs to be examined now, before the state asks for something worse.