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> no one is calling for an end of law enforcement. There are several comments in this discussion calling for abolishing the police. Whenever this topic gets br
by bnralt 5y ago
> no one is calling for an end of law enforcement.
There are several comments in this discussion calling for abolishing the police. Whenever this topic gets brought up, it usually seems like half the people are defending "Defund the Police" by saying that no one wants to get rid of the police, and the other half are defending "Defund the Police" by telling people why the police should be abolished.
And people with political power are calling for the abolishing them as well. This is Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from last April:
> No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can't be reformed.
I'm not sure why people who want reform are so set on tying themselves to this slogan. If I starting chanting "Defund Public Schools!", I wouldn't expect anyone to interpret that as "remove bloat from school budgets and use the money to fund social services for the kids in order to lessen the burden on teachers and make public schools function better."
[1] https://twitter.com/rashidatlaib/status/1381745303997534216?lang=en https://twitter.com/rashidatlaib/status/1381745303997534216?...
- emptybottle 5y agoI used the term 'law enforcement' and not the term 'police' intentionally as law enforcement is an umbrella while police are a specific group within it. The way I see it the police subgroup could be defunded with new approaches deployed to maintain peace and safety, without needing to cease law enforcement as a whole.
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