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In reply to the discussion: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police [View all]aidbo
(2,328 posts)93. bUt WhaT aBOut teH OptICs?!!?
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Same folks who thought rebranding our party as a socialist party was a good idea
BannonsLiver
Jun 2020
#104
Many of those who talk about abolishing the police have been working on the position for years, and
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#26
"it's also something that takes years of work" - and that's why "abolish the police" is useless
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2020
#113
"Build a fair society" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#121
But we live in our current society, not some idealised one of the future
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2020
#123
Oh for the love of God.. attack the moderates again.. first of all lets us get Biden elected
Peacetrain
Jun 2020
#45
And At Present, Sir, Most Of 'Middle America' Thinks The Police Need Policing
The Magistrate
Jun 2020
#28
Exactly. If we do not win the November election then anything we do now will be futile.
totodeinhere
Jun 2020
#198
The rub of course is the illegal ruling known as "Heller", this unconstitutional ruling
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
#2
Agreed...Completely...and the BULLSHIT Heller ruling which purposely IGNORES
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
#33
Cops rarely respond in time to stop an armed robbery in progress. So what does the victim
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#34
The Problem With That Line, Ma'am, Is That People Often Do Behave 'Irrationally'
The Magistrate
Jun 2020
#47
I like the community-based crisis response team idea. We can train them, and arm them.
jmg257
Jun 2020
#79
When I was in college, I lived way out in the country, and cops probably saved my life or at least
cwydro
Jun 2020
#179
I'm sorry that happened to you, and that your experience is being weaponized in the discussion.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#189
He didn't just "hang around". He was kicking the door, swearing, smashing the other panes in the
cwydro
Jun 2020
#190
Do you agree that anyone who commits an armed robbery deserves to be apprehended and tried?
totodeinhere
Jun 2020
#199
If you like my posts on police abolition, wait 'til I get started on prison abolition.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#200
Interestingly, for-profit prisons are responsible for less than 10 percent of the incarcerated
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#203
And as someone who's GF was in the Fla prison system for 3 year (drug charge)
EX500rider
Jun 2020
#205
I agree but my point was most the people on DU who bad talk the private prisons..
EX500rider
Jun 2020
#211
Someone will probably say if you're getting held up, "you have too much".
RhodeIslandOne
Jun 2020
#148
You can't abolish the police but you can reform the police. Keep it up and Trump will win.
Demsrule86
Jun 2020
#14
Minnneapolis has been reforming its police for 150 years. The result is the murder of George Floyd.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#21
If we run on eliminating police Trump may win and we get nothing...in fact it would likely be
Demsrule86
Jun 2020
#108
Republicans twist every message. I'm not interested in watering something down and doing the work
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#126
Could be. You could say I did it when I worked during a presidential election year on the gay
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#138
Your Annoyance, Ma'am, Is Not The Best Measure Of Whether A Course Is Sound Or Not
The Magistrate
Jun 2020
#139
Majority of Americans didn't approve of MLK at the time of his death, too, so.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#55
You never answered my question: you see a rape in progress, an armed robbery in progress,
Squinch
Jun 2020
#49
So, let me get this straight: I am watching out my window as someone is being raped.
Squinch
Jun 2020
#56
Do we do anything about catching the rapist? Who makes the "arrest", if/when, the perp is known?
jmg257
Jun 2020
#74
Somehow I don't think abolishing the Police is going to improve the stats. nt
EX500rider
Jun 2020
#204
And what % of the 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers are guilty of that exactly? nt
EX500rider
Jun 2020
#207
Curious too: Someone decides to shoot up a school/theater/mall, who answers the 911 call?
jmg257
Jun 2020
#76
Social workers and an unarmed "community action team" will respond, of course
BannonsLiver
Jun 2020
#114
It is all those things, and we need it like we need another 4 years of Trump, but if
Squinch
Jun 2020
#130
NO crime, so no arrests, and so no jails. No laws, no lawyers, no judges. Its easy if you try.
jmg257
Jun 2020
#81
Better abolish the 911 system too, no ambulance will respond to crime scene victims if it isn't safe
Baclava
Jun 2020
#88
I'd still want someone official to solve murders or find missing persons, but...
Amy-Strange
Jun 2020
#163