It starts with a cultural shift within that community. People have to make a choice to resolve internal conflicts without guns and there need to be infrastructures in place so drugs, gangs, etc are no needed to make money.
Is your first sentence there a question or statement? Please clarify. I don't understand the second sentence, the third is a distortion of Still's and my position and the fourth sentence is a basardization of a quote and the power would reside with the people.
Who said it was going to solve the problem? I've always maintained that the sniping of five cops is a byproduct of an unresolved problem.
What do you feel the problem is and how should we tackle it?
What i was trying to say is you (and I) live in a democracy where the majority of the people agreed to have laws that need to be enforced by police.
In my opinion the real problem is the ghetto's. Ghetto's are the poor man's prison. When you dont have money, you're automatically going to live in a neighborhood with other poor people. Poor people cant afford nice houses with swimming pools. Poor people cant send their children to the best schools so poor people are less likely to get a good job. Obviously, poor people are going to commit crimes if they discover this is a way to give their family a decent meal. And because poor people live together in this society prison, they are going to influence each other and drag each other down in a vicious circle.
I live in a ghetto myself. Its not as bad as in America. We dont have a lot of shootings and gang activity in the Netherlands. But it's still a neighborhood where the majority of the people is using drugs, are physically or mentally handicapped and/or basically have a bad (criminal) attitude because we dont get a fair chance in society.
We need to get rid of the ghetto's by dividing money in a country in a more fair manner. People that already have a million dollars/euro's dont need another million on the bank to have a good living. We need another revolution, like it started in France in the 1800's with the decapitation of the rich and giving power back to the 'average' people.
When there's no ghetto's, there will be less crime. There will be no neighborhoods were cops only dare to enter wearing a bullet proof vest and a machine gun (im speaking of american ghetto's now). Cops are scared to enter these hoods because every idiot has a gun and might pull the trigger on them.
There will still be racist cops, but i truely believe there will be no more (or minimal) police violence when there are no ghetto's. There's no police violence in rich neighborhoods after all.
Reading back, I guess my solution to the problem is also a fantasy solution.....
