[treebeard901]

Blue cities should have local citizen backed militias under the control of the mayor.

[staplers]

The national guard exists for this purpose (state level) but is mostly captured by federal interests.

Local PD's could in effect do something similar but have shown to back the authoritarian-aligned party.

Propaganda has aligned nearly every single level of law enforcement to authoritarianism. I can't see a scenario where this is undone.

[bee_rider]

Some states also have a “state defense force” which is explicitly under the control of the state. But they tend to be pretty small I think, and lots of them are inactive or purely ceremonial.

[zbentley]

How would that be different from current municipal police forces?

[ceejayoz]

The "under the control of the mayor" bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Assoc...

> Approximately 4,000 NYPD officers took part in a protest that included blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and jumping over police barricades in an attempt to rush City Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_San_Francisco_P...

> The ACLU obtained a court order prohibiting strikers from carrying their service revolvers. Again, the SFPD ignored the court order. On August 20, a bomb detonated at the Mayor's home with a sign reading "Don't Threaten Us" left on his lawn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/nyregion/chiara-de-blasio...

> Among the hundreds of protesters arrested over the four days of demonstrations in New York City over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, only one was highlighted by name by a police union known for its hostility toward Mayor Bill de Blasio. The name of that protester? Chiara de Blasio, the mayor’s daughter.

[dragonwriter]

“Under control of the mayor” would be different from many current municipal police forces.

[ceejayoz]

If you think there's any city in the US with antifa "under the control of the mayor", phew. I'm not sure what to say to that.