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Police budgets continue to rise despite movements calling for reductions. This wouldn't be an effect of police abolition that hasn't actually happened.
by stvltvs 2y ago
Police budgets continue to rise despite movements calling for reductions. This wouldn't be an effect of police abolition that hasn't actually happened.
- steveBK123 2y agode-policing does not neccessarily mean abolition or even cutting the budget. It can mean, as we've seen, to effectively stop enforcing certain laws either because they were ordered to, because the DA stops prosecuting those they arrest, or as a quiet quitting type response by police to having their feelings hurt. Pick your cause, but clearly it has happened for non-violent offenses in a lot of cities. Some will argue its not happened, others will happen its good that it's happened, and still others will argue it should happen even further...