"Securing Our Lives"
A short phrase with layered meaning. It is positive in tone, one that acknowledges the importance of "security", a buzz word that the right wants to own. But we get to define it's meaning when we own the phrase. Securing our lives means ending that which threatens us. It means stopping police brutality that is taking Black Lives. It means ending insecurity which makes us all less safe, including medical insecurity, housing insecurity, psychological insecurity and economic insecurity. Security is so much broader a concept than the mere presence of police force. The police can never deliver true security to a community. Only a healthy society can do that, and more of our resources must be allocated toward that end, which means less for narrow "policing". There is a role for police in a healthy society, but it is a much smaller role than the police now occupy in ours.
