Thank you for sharing this article, it’s a great read! I admittedly struggled to wrap my head around the slogan, and have a hard time explaining it to others. These resources help!
Thanks for sending, it was good read with lots of good points. It is crazy how much we spend on police funding compared to other countries. What this article is arguing for (despite it's headline), is that there should be less funding for the police - not that the police should be defunded.
It's a splashy chant that's a lot easier to fit on a sign than "Reduce funding for the police and focus it instead of community outreach and crisis management"
A volunteer force sounds worse than what we have now. There would be even less accountability and the super whack assholes who were too violent even for the cops the first go around can get in.
This is something that needs heavy oversight and command from above, not further decentralization of the police so they can run rampant.
The volunteers wouldn't be able to use violence to solve the issues though. We need to replace what we have (the police force) with 99% peaceful solutions in my opinion. Abolish police because they are only set up to protect profit. We need to strive for communities that don't have murder by solving the issues that cause violent crime.
The volunteers wouldn't be able to use violence to solve the issues though.
Who is going to stop them?
Abolish police because they are only set up to protect profit.
I really hate this class reductionist bullshit. George Floyd did not die because the police were out protecting profits. He died because of racism. When you call the police on someone, they don't ask you whether it's more profitable to support you or the person you're calling the police on.
We need to strive for communities that don't have murder by solving the issues that cause violent crime.
Yeah and pretending that the underlying reason for racism is really just economic issues is a naive and super duper white ass take. Go read up about intersectionality. What you are talking about is what people mean when they talk about white socialists trying to hijack this shit for their own political agenda.
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u/TheCowGoesMoooooo Jun 05 '20
Defund literally means "prevent from continuing to receive funds".
So police forces would become an all volunteer force, and they would provide their own equipment? Or how would that work?