Austin

Exploring what's next. Founder /launchcaster. YC alum. Avid trail runner 🍊🏃

One idea I think is really good is community supported policing.

Most businesses cannot afford Lance Armstrong’s private police. But you could organize a small group on a block that could together could afford these amenities. 

Start a private security firm with an SLA mandated response time for in person responders, and augment that with digital surveillance like Flock https://www.flocksafety.com/

Organize the community to say enough and sell to the group as a whole

More people are thinking about how to replace the void left by understaffed police https://x.com/2112power/status/1847108205845074106

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are police actually understaffed? it just seems like they don't give a shit anymore

I can’t tell, honestly, if it’s actual understaffing or spiritual understaffing

They just never were intended to prevent crime or protect people. Their roll is to enforce the poverty and racism required for the functioning of capitalism, and be a domestic counter-revolutionary force to preserve the military empire.