What Does Defunding the Police Look Like?

[pauldun170]

For those curious

 

[brycejones]

It doesn't mean we let Antifa and the criminals run wild through the streets? Must be fake news.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Roy is brilliant - his standup (you can find it on youtube/netflix) is BRUTAL truth.

 

[nickqt]

The major problem is the god damn terminology, not the actual idea behind the term.

Demilitarize the Police is probably as accurate and sounds substantially less like "abolish" to people who have close to zero critical thinking skills and are not interested in objective reality.

Kinda similar to the whole "global warming" and "climate change" bullshit. Both terms are accurate; global warming is a general meta term for what is happening overall, whereas the other term is more specific to smaller places/regions, so that while the globe is overall warming, there will be regions that might see some localized "cooling" at the same time.

As always, the right will attempt to confuse its own base as much as possible to keep them reliably voting for their candidates that know the reality and don't care because they're only interested in profits and power.

 

[Brainonska511]

The major problem is the god damn terminology, not the actual idea behind the term.

Demilitarize the Police is probably as accurate and sounds substantially less like "abolish" to people who have close to zero critical thinking skills and are not interested in objective reality.

If you're explaining, you're losing. I agree that the choice in slogan was quite poor. It should have been kept simple and focused on a tangible goal that gets broad buy-in. "Reform the police", "demilitarize the police", or "reinvest in X" would have been much better slogans. You'd still be fighting the right wing noise machine, but at least you wouldn't be starting out from a position where you've shot yourself in the foot.

 

[Ken g6]

If you're explaining, you're losing. I agree that the choice in slogan was quite poor. It should have been kept simple and focused on a tangible goal that gets broad buy-in. "Reform the police", "demilitarize the police", or "reinvest in X" would have been much better slogans. You'd still be fighting the right wing noise machine, but at least you wouldn't be starting out from a position where you've shot yourself in the foot.

Somebody's probably going to call that "disarm the police". Though if that's not the official slogan it might not catch on.

I also like "Take the 'beat' out of the beat cops". As in not beating up people.

 

[cytg111]

For those curious

Jfc... Karens... Priceless... Really 🙂

Seriously, this sounds like a development of something already present in Scandinavia, though based on free work, you know, people wanting to give something back for the UBI 😉.Its really good work, I can only imagine the good it can do if properly funded.

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1354582128353189890

more de-funding of the police 🙂

 

[Fenixgoon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1354582128353189890

more de-funding of the police 🙂

i really hope it works. in my 4 years in austin, i saw a dramatic increase in the number of homeless people.

one of the best parts of this is that by providing long-term housing, people can actually get jobs because they'll have a mailing address. It's a huge enabler for getting people back on their feet and "back into society"

 

[K1052]

Simply buying efficiency hotels is a good way permanently house people. It's cheaper and faster than building apartments for the same purpose.

 

[sandorski]

i really hope it works. in my 4 years in austin, i saw a dramatic increase in the number of homeless people.

one of the best parts of this is that by providing long-term housing, people can actually get jobs because they'll have a mailing address. It's a huge enabler for getting people back on their feet and "back into society"

Wait until the Whiners start whining about it. Especially the Politicians.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Somebody's probably going to call that "disarm the police". Though if that's not the official slogan it might not catch on.

I also like "Take the 'beat' out of the beat cops". As in not beating up people.

Call it refunding. We spent the money on police, didn't get what we paid for and decided we'd rather put that money to use elsewhere.

 

[hal2kilo]

The experiment is happening across Puget Sound from where I live. We will see.