Ideally, I think the U.S. should abolish small-town police departments in favor of letting the National Guard perform Gendarmerie duties.* It would relieve small towns of the burden of having to directly pay for law enforcement and would be an excellent way to stop small-town police corruption in its tracks. However, I'm sure that the small towns would start bitching and moaning about "big government" if something like that ever happened.
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*As an aside, someone should try making Gendarmerie-style uniforms for the National Guard. Comeon, you know you want to.
