Too bad summoning demons is fiction. They at least have to follow orders of you set it up correctly.
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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Currently, dontcallthepolice.com lists local resources for more than 70 different metropolitan areas across North America ... Each locality has a host of hotlines and warmlines (an early intervention tool for people pre-crisis who need emotional support) ... another place to look for 911 alternatives iscould be within your city’s government. Prominent examples include Minneapolis’s Office of Violence Prevention, based out of the city’s health department; Eugene, Oregon’s CAHOOTS program, made up of mobile crisis intervention responders; or San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission ...
Specifically mentioned hotlines: BlackLine, TransLifeline
Living in a country where you're afraid to call the police sounds so crazy to me.
The police in all countries exist specifically to do violence against citizens of that country. That is literally their reason for existing.
Police having monopoly on (legal) violence does not mean the point of them existing is explicitly to terrorise people to the extent people are afraid to call them.
Only in places where they are allowed to become thugs is that the case.
That's not what I said. It's right there on the screen. Neither is it what the article says. I won't engage with such rhetorical devices that border on sophistry.
If you have services available other than the police, it is in your interest to prefer those. Societal, it is in our interest to offload non-violent services from the police onto social workers and other non-violent labour.
Yes it is what you said.
The police in all countries exist specifically to do violence against citizens of that country. That is literally their reason for existing.
You said they're there to carry out violence on citizens. That's not what the police are or should be for.
If you have services available other than the police, it is in your interest to prefer those.
No. You're again thinking police are violent thugs everywhere.
No, you're still misunderstanding. Police explicitly exist to do violence on behalf of the state. That is their exclusive function, everywhere, at all times.
If you do not need violence against your fellow citizens, do not call the police.
While it is certainly worse in some countries, the bigger factor is who you are. Migrants and other minorities, or people with mental health issues are pretty much universally abused by police no matter where.
Must be nice.