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 @ShannaPettegre1 @cenkuygur
Just 🤢🤢🤢
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You have been saying what i've wanted to say for decades: this. Exactly this.
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No mom :( Reform is so easy to co-op, water down, and its so vague. People would end up adding to police budgets to institute those "reforms"
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#DefundThePolice speaks to the militarization of police departments. Not enough Democratic candidates this year made that connection clear to voters. theguardian.com/world/2020/j…
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#rethinkpolice
Replying to @marwilliamson @cenkuygur
Reform how? “Reform” has been floated since before Rodney King and nothing has fundamentally changed.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @cenkuygur
start with the question "who do they serve?" and work out from there.
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Reforming the police isn't new. It's been the message before defund the police was. Bless BLM because remember kneeling was too much because he was in sports. Then we marched. It was too much because there wasn't a message. Now defund the police is too direct. MAKE UP UR MINDS!
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Abolishing patrol police would have saved every single one of those people.
Replying to @marwilliamson @cenkuygur
Ya’ll are right, the activists should have formed a focus group and thought about what would make people the most comfortable before heading out into the streets
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