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Yes, education is our most cost effective way of preventing social problems

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For sure!  I am a female who was a night janitor, and was stopped a lot.  Some police officers were pleasant, but plenty were intentionally intimidating, and yes, caused me to have a low opinion of police in general.   Not long ago, we knew we did not have to show ID unless we were driving.  Passengers should not have to show ID.  This is a matter of protecting our liberty and not becoming a police state.   The manner of some police officers is for a police state, not the nation that fought two world wars to not be a police state.  

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I listened in Eugene, and here we have Cahoots as an alternative to the police.  I much prefer Cahoots because they de-escalate the problem, while the police escalate problems with their war zone behavior.   I think we have a real public relations problem with the police, in part because of their war zone behavior, and in part because budget cuts results in calls for help and being told no one will respond.   Springfield police have killed so many people, and their manner is so bad, I hate to even drive through Springfeild.   Whoever thought it was a good idea for police officers to be intimidating was wrong.  Who wants to pay for that?  Not me.  Surely Cahoots is very concerned about protecting their own and others, but they go about  it diffenetly. 

Secondly, until 1958 the priority of public education was good citizenship.  Every child learned the way to protect our liberty is to obey the laws.  They also learned good manners, and were prepared to make moral judgments without the church.  We used public education to Americanize the immigrants, and teaching good citizenhip was not left up to parents.  It was the original reason the federal government mandated free public schools.   Jefferson held such education is essential to a strong republic. 

 Education for technology is preparing our young for a technological society with unknown values.  They are prepared to be products for industry.  The social ramifications of this are very bad.    And it sure is not preparing for them the future which demands precieving reality with awareness of quantum physics. 

Culturally we are in trouble, because we stopped transmitting our culture.  The place to correct our social problems  is public education, not making more laws and demanding more from our police.  That is the path of a police state.   As Jefferson would let you know, religion is not the only path to morality, and transmitting a culture for the highest morality does not have to rely on religion.   We used the classics to promote a highly moral society, and science is giving us good explanations of human behavior and morality.   

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