Author Topic: Defund the Police  (Read 17955 times)

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Offline cybercoma

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Re: Defund the Police
« Reply #225 on: April 23, 2021, 06:50:16 am »
Dude literally says we don't know what those consequences would be, but if doing away with policing as it is currently constituted is accompanied by a significant increase in resources to eliminate the causes of crime, why would you expect crime to go up unless you think everyone around you is secretly a monster whose base urges are only held in check by the threat of state violence?

He also contends that the issue isn't having some body to maintain order and enforce laws, but the nature of modern policing and society itself.
It's also interesting to go back and look at the advent of policing, which was literally to harass and institutionalize the homeless and unemployed. Rather than address the sources of those problems, they punish people who suffer from them.
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