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As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause. (files.catbox.moe)

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The NYPD is skulking through the L train demanding IDs from Black and Latino men, again with zero justified cause or explanation as to why.

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Some kind of police is necessary. Public order needs to be kept, laws enforced, crime fought, dangers prevented. A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

What kind of powers, tasks, oversight, and so on police gets is the issue.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

A state monopoly on violence is not a terrible idea and needs to be enforced somehow.

Maybe it's pedantic of me to say this but was not a state monopoly on violence and there certainly isn't now. A lot of goon squads are composed of private security forces.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

There should be a state monopoly on violence, and that violence should be heavily regulated.

Sadly, neither of those statements are currently true.