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Luis Rico

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Policing improves the perception of security and prevents small conflicts from becoming larger ones

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Bibiana Cepeda

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The police discriminate against the situations of black people BCR

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Colombian police reliability in constant decreasing since 2020

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Juan Perdomo

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Homework about police (Juan Camilo Perdomo)

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We have to stop trying to solve all our social problems using policing. Diana Muñoz

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We have to stop trying to solve all our social problems using policing. Diana Muñoz

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Around the world, in most of the cases when we have any problems in our life, we call the police, searching for a solution to them. But Police officers don’t have the training to solve many of them, and don’t have the power to resolve the source that caused the problems or the crimes. Their training is more oriented in defense of our rights and keeping us safe, in some cases fighting against the violent who want to disturb our lives.

We need people more trained in these kinds of topics to really help people and find a root solution to their problems. For example, many of the crimes are committed under the effects of drugs, this problem has to be solved with drug treatment programs and not by arresting them. Or in the cases of homeless people, the solution is not to move them to another place, it is to have home programs to provide them with a site to live.

We have to focus our efforts as a society to find other ways to deal with our problems. To have more police officers doesn't resolve many of them. It’s important that our governments give us new programs dedicated to helping us eradicate the source of most of the main crimes.

For example, in countries where all the citizens have guaranteed their feed, education and health, the index of crimes are less. This is a great proof that if we invest in that all people have these conditions solved, we could say that the necessity for stealing disappears. We need to have this solved in all countries to reduce the crimes in our world.

If we invest more in the basic needs of the people we require less budget for the war and we can live a better life.