"Reform police" progress toward justice. "Abolish police" anarchy. ( They have more guns ) nt

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35. We actually have pretty good ideas about what causes violent crimes, and much of it is preventable.

What are some of the causes or motives for murder? A crime of passion (jealousy, heat of the moment, control), another crime gone wrong (armed robbery), a business proposition (murder for hire), desperation (trying to get out of a bad situation), and so on. Emotional murders can be mitigated with better emotional intelligence education, conflict resolution, anger control, understanding of cultural cues around gender roles. Even serial killers have their drives, which often stem from ugly childhoods or untreated illnesses/injuries, which would also be mitigated in an abolitionist model.

"Some kind of system" is deliberately vague, because different communities would come up with different models, just like we do now. Small town cops bust up teen parties made up of children of their friends and neighbors differently than inner-city cops do (and with their own exceptions as well, which we accept as part of the price for the system we have). We can have varying models without cops -- and with much more community input.