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All cops have guns, even if they don't carry them around all the time.
And cops do not prevent crime, so it will still exist with them as well. And they're not the only way to deal with crime, so your bringing them up just shows it's the only system you can possible imagine.
And lastly, the narrative of "some people just want to be criminals" is a right-wing narrative that there is no evidence constitutes any real portion of criminals. Nearly all crime is crime of desperation. If a person suffering from a drug addiction doesn't have to steal to get drugs, they won't.
Read my post. Not what I said whatsoever. The idea that everyone who takes drugs is just waiting to be 'fixed' comes from a place of extreme privilege. It's very frustrating that you're arguing against the points that you think might be happening rather than reading the thread or even my posts to you directly.
And again, I've asked you for your 'alternative' to policing and you don't seem to have anything, outside of hiring different police from the community, but not calling them police, for reasons.
What part of "police are agents of state authority, mutual-defence groups are not" is hard to understand?
How did you turn me saying
into me saying we'd fix them being addicted to drugs?
Again, read the thread. It's like you're replying to individual messages without context. It means that your messages don't make sense in context.