Thread: Police Brutality People are confused as to what defunding the police means. Let me explain: Defunding the police does not mean, officers are out of a job. It doesn’t mean they don’t exist. It doesn’t mean we won’t have them to protect the community in times of need.
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back into the community & pays officers to do what their motto actually says, “protect & serve”. With community policing (which you need training for & doesn’t mean vigilante police) officers would be trained with new tactics that take race, poverty, & psychological circumstances
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into consideration. They’re not going to be armed heavily (they’re demilitarized which is how police are in nearly every major country) bc their job isn’t to serve politicians or profit off the prison system, but to take care of their communities. When someone commits a crime the
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community can evaluate if it’s rehabilitation versus imprisonment that’s needed. We abolish for profit prisons and stop making jailing a cushiony business for exploiters. Police get paid, police serve & protect. But they do not create adversarial relationships or use excessive...
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force like military grade weapons on civilians. There’s a lot more that goes into this as far as specifics, like mandatory body cams, a national database to record complaints, fixing prison conditions, etc. There’s also different ranges as to how far people want to go.
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Some want to disband police departments which still wouldn’t do away with police, just put it in the community more and hire specific people who are more than officers & are reflective of their communities rather than armed strangers. They might be mental health providers...
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social workers, victim advocates & other community members in roles other than just policing. Ultimately, the entire system of oppression has to be dismantled. This is one arm of it. This is how that begins.
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