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OP, when the body is taken into account you have positioned this post essentially as a leading question/rage bait. AskLemmy is intended for genuinely open-ended, thought provoking questions. For example, "What might be some viable alternatives to prison/policing". Please update your question to be less leading and more open-ended and thought provoking.
Edit: Sigh, I tried. Not an open ended question. Locking.
"Do you support me?" cannot be polished into something thing open-ended
Why not? This thread is achieving the desired outcome; discussion about the topic, exploration of solutions and critique, and attentiveness to the issue. If you don't like the way it's phrased because of some arcane rule you can piss off and participate in another thread.
I want your users to be angry because until now their position on overpolicing has been an echo chamber: "we need to make gradual improvements to the existing system and hope for the best".
The purpose of your community is to generate discussion and thought-provocation, which I've accomplished.
This post is "not essentially rage bait" and the suggestion is offensive. ALL revolutionary ideology is rage-inducing. We got to this point because of decades of abuse, how could a person not be enraged by it?
Do you think I feel strongly about this issue and want people to change their minds about it, or do you think I came here to make people mad for fun? Do your job and stop the grandstanding.