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It can be frustrating to read the way that people who are unaware of all of the things that “police presence” will do to a neighborhood write about police abolition— even when they are making an effort to understand they still regard police as something that, if removed, would need to be replaced. After all? who will stop the criminals? Who will keep the neighborhood from descending into chaos?
What they fail to understand is that the police *are* the chaos. 1/
@futurebird I agree with most of this but we cannot get away from the violence exacted on those considered “weak,” including women and children, by those in power. And it can be anyone from police to the military, criminals, a local bully, a town leader, a teacher, armed or not, openly or hidden. We need some kind of system to protect those who are not safe from those who — from time immemorial and across cultures and countries — have sought to take and harm.
@MelodyCooper @futurebird
One of my refrains:
We need public safety.
Whatever the police are, it’s not public safety.
There’s both a harm •and• an unmet need here, and those two things are not contradictory.
