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"Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate.
by travisoneill1 6y ago
"Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate.
- ceejayoz 6y agohttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-police-reform-a-fundamentally-flawed-idea/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-police-reform-a-fund...
- Pfhreak 6y agoIt's not accurate, unfortunately. Reform is as ambiguous as defund. Do you mean totally eradicate and then reform a department? Or do you mean just telling them "do better"? Are you talking about re-forming the police or reforms for police?
- ardy42 6y ago> "Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate. IIRC, "defund the police" grew out of frustration with various police reform efforts that failed to address these problems [1]. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to take up the slogan of one of the things you're opposing. [1] For instance I watch a video of some police deescalation training (in Seattle, IIRC), where the rank-and-file were talking back and not taking it seriously, and the instructors were not very enthusiastic or in control. I can't imagine that reform effort did a lot of good.