I understand the critique of #DefundThePolice as a slogan, what I don’t understand is that it’s critics never say what they would do instead. “It’s a bad slogan, so let’s leave policing as it is” is a thousand times worse than any slogan.
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I think it’s an unwise slogan because it miscommunicates. Less $ for police wouldn’t have saved George Floyd, Breonna Taylor or Philippe Castille etc. It alone doesn’t get to the core problem: corrupted police culture & inadequate training. #ReformThePolice sounds better to me.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @cenkuygur
But one of the biggest issues is they get insane funding to buy Iraq War surplus equipment...
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I agree, and it’s a huge issue. Budget diminishment should definitely be involved. But it alone doesn’t speak to the deeper level problem, which is police culture.
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The problem is reform the Police has been used for decades and it failed
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I hear that.
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Reform won't do it, we've been "reforming" them since 1890, and damn little has changed.
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I don’t remember a #ReformThePolice hashtag ever being used on a massive scale. Maybe that’s just me. And reform goes much deeper than money. The training is inadequate and police culture is infiltrated by some very dangerous forces. Way more than defunding is needed.
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I'm sorry, but if I can get a boomer conservative to go from thinking "defund the police" is bad and means abolishing them entirely to "holy shit, we need to defund the police" in under a minute, I refuse to believe it's that hard to explain the concept.
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Let's try Prosecute the Police
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And Its not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping people alive. Defund the police.
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2 initiatives: Move money from military police spending to build up under developed cities And Change the tactics, surveillance & punishment of police
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