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“Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.” No one advocating defunding the police was saying it would be g
by elil17 6y ago
“Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.”
No one advocating defunding the police was saying it would be good for business owners. The point of the whole movement is that police protect the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else.
- thatsfine 6y agoThen the businesses will leave and the local economy will suffer. Those with little will have less. Those with enough to start over elsewhere will leave. This phenomenon is called "blight". Good luck Seattle.
- shadowgovt 6y agoAs long as Amazon and MSFT are mixed into the economy, Seattle barely needs luck. Not when it has that much tech cash blowing through it.
- donkey-hotei 6y agoThat this article is written by someone who isn't from Seattle, and posted by someone on hacker news who isn't from Seattle, really amuses some of us who live on the hill.
- iron0013 6y agoHere in Minneapolis the feeling is similar. Suburban and rural folks seem awfully concerned about crime in the city, while those of us who actually live in the city just want the cops’ boots off our damn necks.
- leetcrew 6y agoI don't think the owner of an independent coffee shop qualifies as "rich and powerful".
- andrew_ 6y agoI would argue that small business owners with few employees would hardly meet the generalized popular definition of "rich," and that their inability to operate would directly harm those employees who are also not "rich." This country runs on small business owners, and it's baffling that there are those who exclude that fact from their worldview.
- csilverman 6y agoIf you're looking at what happened to the business owners in the article and thinking that that's a step in the right direction, I think there are a lot of criminal-justice/police reform folks who would prefer that you did not try to associate yourself with what they're fighting for. Telling America that the coffee-shop guy deserved to get harassed by a violent mob because he's a wealthy fatcat is the surest way to discredit any cause you're advocating for. And I'm saying this as someone who thought the ideas underlying DTP made a fair amount of sense.