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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What is the progressive left trying to do about policing? I hear slogans like "Defund the Police" that seemed designed to lose moderate support and not get anything concrete done.
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I don't know what the "progressive left" has to say on policing. Doesn't seem like a big issue for them.
"Defund the Police" is a long-standing slogan of Black police abolitionists, that it became really popular to for comfortable Dems to critique as bad politics.
It remains the case that we should be limiting the instances where we send armed men with guns to where they are actually needed and that's we've allowed the solution of armed men with guns to expand to the degree that they are our only public safety resource.
Locally, it will be interesting to watch whether our mayor, who ran on reform, will kill all of our pre-existing reform plans or not. (He didn't really mean reform, he meant the status quo)
