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Maybe it’s the weed talking, but:
Customer: Taxpayers
Provider: Police Department
Product: Policing
Quality: ★★☆☆☆
Customer Service: ★☆☆☆☆
Price: $$$$$
Defunding the police is: we don’t like what you’re selling, it’s too expensive, and the customer service sucks.
Customer: Taxpayers
Provider: Police Department
Product: Policing
Quality: ★★☆☆☆
Customer Service: ★☆☆☆☆
Price: $$$$$
Defunding the police is: we don’t like what you’re selling, it’s too expensive, and the customer service sucks.
Like, sorrry, police. Your product sucks, we tried reform, you whined about it and copped an attitude.
Then you start teargassing us and shooting people’s eyes out and blasting their noses off with rubber bullets.
Bad idea to make the people your enemy. We’re your boss’s boss.
Then you start teargassing us and shooting people’s eyes out and blasting their noses off with rubber bullets.
Bad idea to make the people your enemy. We’re your boss’s boss.
The problem with “reform the police” is that the entire world has changed while the policing product has remained essentially unchanged, but with military weapons.
Reform maybe could have worked 40 years ago, but y’all resisted that change.
Now there’s way too much legacy code.
Reform maybe could have worked 40 years ago, but y’all resisted that change.
Now there’s way too much legacy code.
I’d like to believe that humans will make the state obsolete at some point.
But that’s a huge refactoring project.
Meanwhile, we do still need some kind of armed, deputized function that can be called out when needed.
But we do NOT need armed cops driving around the damn city.
But that’s a huge refactoring project.
Meanwhile, we do still need some kind of armed, deputized function that can be called out when needed.
But we do NOT need armed cops driving around the damn city.
When you create an org and culture around a specific mission and then you hire and promote for that mission, you end up hiring people who are, shall we say, temperamentally suited for THAT job.
Kids who watched Dirty Harry and said “I want to be a cop”, and did — that’s a TYPE.
Kids who watched Dirty Harry and said “I want to be a cop”, and did — that’s a TYPE.
We’ve staffed and organized police departments around the principles of:
1. Keep poor people from disturbing property owners.
2. Make sure we have a steady supply of bodies feeding the prison-industrial complex.
3. Uphold white supremacy.
You don’t just REFORM that. Scrap it
1. Keep poor people from disturbing property owners.
2. Make sure we have a steady supply of bodies feeding the prison-industrial complex.
3. Uphold white supremacy.
You don’t just REFORM that. Scrap it
