gls@odyssey.UUCP (10/30/87)
> In article <1463@haddock.ISC.COM> laura@haddock.ISC.COM (The writer in the closet) writes: > > > What will a police station/police fortress be like in the 2030's? No police. We police ourselves. The street is the station, the courtroom, and the prison. "The center cannot hold." --W. B. Yeats -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls
hobie@sq.UUCP (11/05/87)
For some grim future police speculation take a look at "Jagged Orbit"
(?) by John Brunner. In this future streets have a special "riot lane" surrounded by concrete walls just so police can get around without hindrance. Rioting
gets so bad sometimes they call in a "LR" , a last resort strike, which means
they completely wipe out a city block with an airstrike. There are also neigh-
bourhood militias who practice armed defence of their block. Can't remember
much more than that (like what the story was).
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