Who wants to move to CHAZ?

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Well the thing about defunding police departments is I think it will do more harm than good, and a lot of other people probably think that too. So I thought the reason why they didn't listen to protester's demands before was that it would do more harm than good. Or at least come to some sort of compromise rather than defund departments in every city in the country almost.

“Defunding” can be interpreted many ways.

More and more, it doesn’t mean to “dismantle” the police; rather, it means to divert funds meant for the police towards programs to address societal ills.

In the DarkHorse podcast above Bret offered an interesting possibility as to what could be happening with respect to the police department in this district where all of the staff took all of their possessions home with them. He was offering the idea that this was something of a deliberate tactic to let this group of people have this particular space so they could run their experiment, the predictable results (ie. lawlessness) would ensue, with the wager that it would look bad enough that it might help stem the tide on the push for no policing.

Any actual push for, literally, no police force and no courts is batisht crazy because it means there's only violence and intimidation to settle disputes. Something Bret suggested was the Ezra Kleinification of words, such as 'they say this but they really mean...' with respect to defunding the police and the New York Times piece suggesting that no - they mean it literally, I think a good way to put it as to why I'd say it would have to be a restructuring, no one with an opinion that anyone would take or listen to seriously would actually mean 'no police' and to the degree one did suggest that they were placating such thinking - assuming such thinking had unwarranted social power for a time being - is they'd simply need to find some way of getting the same thing done while, in word only, 'getting rid of the police'. Anyone whose made any kind of contact with social disorder at a professional level (with adult responsibility in dealing with the fallout) would know that pulling out any policing, and courts, is suicide. It's voluntarily sending your community into one of Dante's infernos similar to a perpetually burning Caracas Venezuela.

currently the articles on chaz,, place all 911 services are available to those residents inside the chaz area. perhaps they are demostrating their allergy to violence on both sides of the law.

Well why doesn't the U.S. government, and military and law enforcement just give CHAZ a warning that if they do not all leave and go back to their homes, that they are just going to take the land back? Would this be too unreasonable of a response?

political grandstanding............