Thread by @philmandelbaum

Want answers on what it means to #AbolishThePolice and #AbolishPrisons?

I interviewed @equalityAlec of @CivRightsCorps, and I don't say this often but this is a *must watch*

I interviewed @equalityAlec about his work ending the criminalization of poverty, the history of policing and prisons, the real motives behind reforms like body cams, arguments against #DefundThePolice, what abolition really means, and...

What you can do in your own community:

"No society in recorded history of the modern world ever attempted to take so many human beings from the schools, and families, and jobs, and medical care, and children, and put them into government run cages" - @equalityAlec

"If they are determining who's in a jail cell, separated from their kids, and who's home with their family on the basis of how much money they have, how can we trust anything else they're doing?" - @equalityAlec

"That is the kind of evil we're dealing with... The intentional brutality these companies are inflicting"

@equalityAlec talks profiteering off of overpolicing and mass incarceration, and joins @BiancaTylek and @WorthRises in calling out @TomGores, owner of the @DetroitPistons

"What's radical is the incredible amount of money we are currently spending"

I asked @equalityAlec what we should say when liberals tell us they agree with #DefundThePolice... but we need to change our language

"Are we ever going to get to a world where we can guarantee that every single person will be safe every single day? No, and that shouldn't be our goal, and the police are never going to get us to that goal in the first place" - @equalityAlec on arguments against abolition

"The number one rule in how we think about these systems is: is the particular reform that I'm being offered shrinking the size and power of the system? If it's not doing that, it's not worth supporting" - @equalityAlec



#AbolishThePolice #AbolishPrisons