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Re: Labour forced to abandon plans to make police more accountable to local communiti

Direct elections of individual police officers seems like a horrible idea to me. At some point the government needs to have control over its own actions - how many thousands of ballot items can you really intelligently make a decision on every cycle?
 
Re: Labour forced to abandon plans to make police more accountable to local communiti

Kernel Sanders said:
Direct elections of individual police officers seems like a horrible idea to me. At some point the government needs to have control over its own actions - how many thousands of ballot items can you really intelligently make a decision on every cycle?
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I think the idea is more that you elect the person in charge of policing in a given town, a bit a sheriff i guess
 
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