[FRIAM] Thoughts on the Floyd protests

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I've thought that Portland's "street response team" [†] is a good idea that addresses much of this, at least if the idea is taken seriously and extrapolated. It helps address the militarization of police by allowing the police to be/stay that way, but then NOT sending police out for everything. The composition of the response team can be dynamic, maybe even self-organizing to some extent. And if it were extrapolated to (e.g.) groups like CERT (of which Renee' was a member back in Oregon), neighborhood watch, suburban/corporate security services, etc. it could be a serious approach to "defunding" the police. (Defund in quotes because it's not really defunding them, just changing the way it's all organized.)

[†] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/amid-spike-in-911-calls-tied-to-homelessness-street-roots-pitches-response-teams/283-cb0ee8bc-f0e1-4c22-984e-f1c0244e9a7a

On 6/10/20 2:58 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> My "intellectual" interest is in how self-organizing principles and emergence operate in social contexts...  on both sides of the debate here, as is being alluded to here already.   When Law Enforcement gets significantly defunded, what fills the vacuum left by that?

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