The thing that I find so frustrating about this is that I agree with like 80-90% of what this person is arguing for, but it seems ridiculous to me to present th

The thing that I find so frustrating about this is that I agree with like 80-90% of what this person is arguing for, but it seems ridiculous to me to present this as "abolish the police", and to think that if we did all the things proposed, we could abolish the police. As some examples of things I agree with: I think prison should be used much more rarely. It is a terrible thing to imprison someone, and should only be done if someone is an immediate danger to others. Otherwise other punishments should be used. We should also dramatically improve conditions in prisons. But there will still be prisons. I think crime would greatly go down if there was less inequality and more investment in marginalized groups of people, and if systems that oppress people like policing were fixed. But I think there will ~always be crime, and always be police. I think the latter involves things that would be largely popular with people. The former is a tougher sell, but I think things are slowly moving in that direction. I'm not convinced calling these proposals "abolishing the police" is actually helping that cause.