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It's the same impulse that makes cops go after the smallest protesters when they rush. It's the same impulse that makes them go after people they perceive as low status, read: black people
We do need law enforcement, I believe that. Humans are violent creatures, any society worth living in has to have some mechanism to deal with that But this ain't it. Our mechanism CAUSES violence, it has to go We need to abolish the police and create something better
I am fully behind BLM and Defund the Police, but I wonder if a slogan like "Demilitarize America," rather than "Defund the Police," would be more effective - particularly in reaching the people who need to be reached. "Defund..." takes too many steps to explain to people.
I agree that "defund the police" and "abolish the police" both sound like things they aren't. Slogans are real hard "demilitarize America," to me, sounds like we just want to take military weapons out of police hands, which is good but doesn't go far enough
"law" "enforcement" is a sham. There is no such thing nor can there be such.
I agree that the need for having armed folks who are trained and ready to respond to a violent situation isn't going away anytime soon. A start would be having those people live in, and be elected—and able to be recalled at any time—by the communities they serve.
This seemingly simple solution, though, is complicated by the fact that many communities—especially rural ones—are overwhelmingly reactionary at best if not outright bigoted/racist/xenophobic. Their armed responders would represent their communities problematic values and beliefs
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