In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale
Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.
Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone’s right to peacefully protest.
None of those activities seemed necessary, or maybe they were happening without my knowledge
That’s due to the short duration of BM. There’s not enough time for societal conflicts requiring maintenance paperwork - domestic violence and family breakdowns, child custody battles, litigation involving multiple parties with warrants served for trial discovery. BM is also a self-selecting population of (let’s face it) upper-middle class people who are there for a generative purpose. It’s like saying you don’t notice the need for a welfare councilor or federal free lunch voucher program at a $100k/yr private school. That’s not a problem that comes up in that demographic.
