AOC: People who argue that dramatic changes to policing, including budgetary ones...

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11. Going after police or police budgets directly is misguided and not just politically.

Go after the Republicans who caused the situation in the first place. The Republican drug war is a good example.

Suppose you have a situation in which a dumb, a racist, a cowardly, or a sadistic cop kills someone for no good reason. You get nothing by protesting in the street for murder charges against the cop. It's not justice if the cop is convicted. It's not justice if the cop is acquitted or left uncharged. The protests all just backfire and the cause of getting better policing is just set back. The victim stays dead. It's all loss.

Justice is to blame Republicans and all in their political cult structure. That low end bad cop, 90% of the time, was only able to get a job as a cop because of Republican-backed laws and policies. No Drug War; much less violence, mass incarceration, no knock warrant enforcement, etc. No Drug War; much less need for police to begin with. How do we get no Drug War? No Republicans in power; no Drug War.