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Jeff C's avatar

The main reason the US did not see the violent police suppression of lockdown dissenters that was seen in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, etc. is specifically due to local police control. By and large, municipal police and county sheriff's said from the start they would not enforce onerous dictates and instead would rely on "education" (whatever that means). There were some exceptions but they were the outliers.

Bottom line is that it was pretty rare to see people carted off in cuffs for going to park or not wearing a mask in the US. This was not the case in many other so-called western democracies where even departments that appear municipal in their name are actually controlled at the state or national level.

This is the end goal of "defund the police" IMO. It's not to get rid of all police but those that are locally accountable. Of course they will be replaced with police controlled at the state or more likely federal level.

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

Agree. There is a whole lot 'they' would like to do but can't as long as citizens are armed. Our second amendment is the only thing holding back a full on attempt at control. Thanks.

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