"We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments toward providing health care, housing, education and good jobs. If we did this, there would be less need for the police in the first place." nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opini…

Jun 14, 2020 · 5:47 PM UTC

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“We the American People must rise up and do what we do best and create a new possibility. We must say no to what we don’t want- and yes to what we know can be true.” Marianne Williamson
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Your neighborhood first Marianne. Of course you can afford private security but what about the poor inner cities? How will residents fare without police to provide even minimal resistance to predators? Think before you tweet.
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Police and "policy" are synonymous terms for governments. Hypocrisy that then sells governments to lobby agendas makes for bad policies, this always leads to dissonance and the need to eventually push the policies through ever harder, with ever harder policing. #changepolicy
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Less need doesn't mean no need. How are you going to enforce the law? Dumbest idea ever
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It just makes the most sense. Fund social and peace programs, which would as stated, make much less need for a forceful police agency. We still need them, but in a better way. mariannenow.com/issues/us-de…
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That won't stop crime, illegal networks, thugs infringing upon innocent people, and it won't protect people who are in dire danger due to the fact that there's no supported authority left to respond. Come on now.
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When is the last time you lived in a poor or middle class neighborhood? Get outside your safe zone and ask the people who live there what they want. We need law enforcement. Reform is fine, abolition is not.
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Cautionary note, money given to education is ALWAYS mismanaged