If we take into account the most exigent demands of community protection, as well as the relatively small percentage of emergency interventions that are presently called for, especially in beleaguered inner-city communities, we may be able to do two things. First, we can reconstruct the administrative infrastructure of policing so that the chain of command is shared with multiple agencies of safety and protection. Second, we can redesign the architecture of police units and disperse their duties across a number of agencies while decentralizing both their composition and their authority.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 93
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