Abolish the Police

*looks at the vast numbers on people out protesting for days* wow I didn't rad twitter was the real world.

Love how some people here can't wait for things to get back to a normal of budget cuts, voting for a half dead candidate, etc.

oh I see you want trump to win too

Is he the one legalizing drugs? I hear that's the easiest way to cut a police budget.

"The idea that residents and local organizations can play a central role in creating safe and strong communities is not new, and it is not particularly controversial. And yet we have never made the same commitment to these groups that we make to law enforcement..." https://t.co/VLPifIrSp1

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 14, 2020

people are arguing about it on a half-dead liberal music forum

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO ILXINEM ESSE DELENDAM

How is relying on community organizations any different than libertarian wet dreams/vigilante justice/racist neighborhood watches, etc? (note: article is paywalled so I didn't read it). I mean isn't "communities being responsible for safety" why Ahmaud Arbery is dead?

buddy just start a “don’t abolish the police” thread and sort your feelings out there

isn't this the thread where it was meant to be debated?

idk the thread title is pretty unambiguously not a question

I mean I'm fine starting another thread if you just want this to be the left fantasy league police-free autonomous zone thread. ITT, consider the police abolished. You will never have to convince anyone, America agrees with you.

ignore the trolls

So is this good or bad?

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-police-will-no-longer-respond-non-criminal-calls-2020-6

xxpost given your evident disinterest in engaging with the substance of counterrarguments to your endlessly reworked "180-pound 17-year-old" scenario, reading anything about the subject, or otherwise demonstrating a good faith engagement with the issues at stake, i'm not sure who here is living in a fantasy world and not trying to convince anyone.

idk the thread title is pretty unambiguously not a question

― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:35 AM bookmarkflaglink

since when do we allow police threads to only allow posts in support of the thread topic

oh no am...am i the police?????

nah but dr casino said it

man alive is completely right that there will still be scenarios where force is needed. And you guys jumping all over him when he asks a good-faith question about how it might work when cops have been “abolished” is completely fair. My wife worked in an elementary school and had a kid pull a knife in her, and THAT was scary (but not so scary that it required a cop). There are legitimate questions about violent high school kids to be asked. Sure, the “answer” could be “dismantle capitalism” (btw I love this answer!), but barring that, there is a constant flow of traumatized kids coming into schools that isn’t going to magically go away after they’ve had a restorative justice session or two.

It sucks that it seems like even gentle disagreements or questions about this concept are met with a wish to just completely shut down the conversation by some of you.

Is completely unfair

What I don’t understand is why man alive is unable to imagine a service of rapid response tough guys who are not The Cops

"(but not so scary that it required a cop)" xp

Cops are (forgive me) pussies btw they shoot anything vaguely threatening

xxpost given your evident disinterest in engaging with the substance of counterrarguments to your endlessly reworked "180-pound 17-year-old" scenario, reading anything about the subject, or otherwise demonstrating a good faith engagement with the issues at stake, i'm not sure who here is living in a fantasy world and not trying to convince anyone.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, June 14, 2020 10:42 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm reading The End of Policing. I feel like no one wants to engage with the substance of my counterarguments though -- the answer always seems to be magical thinking along the lines of "Well we'll just address the underlying problem and there won't be violence anymore," or else "we'll just have other people do that who aren't police (but I guess are armed and otherwise have the same training as police but better?)?" Like in practice the "people who aren't police" who handle these situations are usually shitty rent-a-cops who are worse than police, so I'm just trying to understand what that actually looks like. And will they be non-union? And how will they not effectively just wind up being the same as police?

Oh you want an ARMED tough guy to tackle a teenager ffs you didn’t specify!!

I had no idea this scenario requires pointing a gun at a child

Maybe when Capitalism is dismantled we won't be required to work for rent, or even go to school as it is or take an exam anymore let me have me this dream!

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/12/21289495/trump-fox-news-chokehold-lincoln

On Friday, Fox News released an interview with President Trump by journalist Harris Faulkner. The interview was a disaster, a case study in why Donald Trump is not and cannot be the person to handle this moment in time.

When asked about police use of chokeholds on suspects like George Floyd, who was killed after a Minneapolis officer pinned him by the neck with his knee for nearly nine minutes, Trump initially told Faulkner, “I don’t like chokeholds,” even saying that “generally speaking, they should be ended.” But he contradicted that pretty quickly, saying when you’ve got someone who is “a real bad person ... what are you gonna do now — let go?”

He even went further, saying that “the concept of chokehold sounds so innocent, so perfect,” if a lone police officer is attempting to detain someone.

His position, as far as I can tell, seems to be that maybe sometimes individual officers need to use chokeholds,

man alive's position

just delurking momentarily to say that as a high school teacher who works in 100% low income school that is 99% students of color these anecdotes about violent kids sound completely absurd to me. we don't have cops on campus and we've never had a fight in the five years i've been there. we've called the cops a few times on kids that were dealing drugs at school but that didn't require anyone armed, just someone legally empowered to grab and hold on to drugs.

you want to protect your helpless white women from 180 lb 17 y.o. teenage superpredators? try making a school that isn't like a prison, try building a strong school culture. that's what restorative justice is for. in the meantime i'm a lot more worried about teenagers of color being victims of over-reactive state violence than teachers getting hurt.

also if an elementary school student feels the need to draw a knife on you maybe it is because you are a scary person who shouldn't be allowed near children?

i know that sounds absurd but so does an elementary school child threatening someone with a knife

yeah that sounds dumb as shit sorry

Blessings upon you, tlg. For the work you do all the time.

the school is all the things you are saying and more, violence still happens

full disclosure - i actually had a sheriff take a student who took a swing at me out of my classroom in my second year of teaching. you know whose fault it was? mine. because i was improperly trained and had no idea how to deescalate a bad situation. this is a deep source of shame i carry around with me, and it's why i have no sympathy for poorly-trained, insensitive teachers who feel threatened by their students.

fuck you dude

fuck you too

hey you two don't make me call the resource officer

lol

xp Who provides 0 resources iirc or if you don't agree let me know when that person can provide me with paper, markers, a chalkboard, some laptops, or any other resources my school doesn't fund.

I mean the name is just the dumbest obfuscation.

in a way is not violence the most essential resource

also if an elementary school student feels the need to draw a knife on you maybe it is because you are a scary person who shouldn't be allowed near children?

That seems unfair. I know a very good, not-at-all-scary middle-school teacher who had a kid pull a knife on her. Nothing to do with her teaching, the kid was having a bad day. She's pretty fearless and had a good relationship with the kid so she just talked them into giving her the knife, no harm done, no cops called. But these things do happen, even to good teachers.

sorry i've been teaching for 15 years and i don't know a single person who's ever had a knife drawn on them, it still sounds absurd

anyway it sounds like that teacher was well trained and did the right thing so good for them and more proof cops in schools are unnecessary

maybe you should try teaching as a 5'2" pregnant woman before you mock "poorly trained, insensitive white women" or w/e

the problem with so many of the objections here is they're assuming the part about the police keeping us safe and then demanding alternatives to fit this imaginary role. people are being accused of dismissing reasonable objections for calling into question the premises the objections are based on. then being called stupid children who don't understand the real world, the standard response to any suggestion of changing it

weird seeing people talking as if standard mainstream opinions you can probably read today in the new york times are embattled or even being silenced here

is it a bad time to point out the education system is also part of the carceral apparatus

no it's absolutely time to bring up the school to prison pipeline

i could have ruined that kids' life

also if an elementary school student feels the need to draw a knife on you maybe it is because you are a scary person who shouldn't be allowed near children?

xpost My friend Megan. Teaches middle school math in California.

I'm not arguing that cops in school are necessary, not at all. But I do think teachers will at times need someone to call, and who that is and how they're trained should should be part of the discussion.

Would also add, the late great, as a fellow teacher, that being improperly trained is not your fault, it is the fault of a training system that provides very little guidance in handling difficult situations and then expects teachers to learn on the job while working more than full time. Blaming teachers in their first years of teaching for not being trained to adequately de-escalate every violent situation seems like a recipe for burnout.