"Any discussion of reform must begin with the following questions: How will we decrease the numbers of police, and how will we defund the institution?"
Consider the fact that 4 police officers responded to the alleged use of a $20 counterfeit bill. Do we have too many police officers or too few?
Meanwhile, billions of dollars of exploitation, fraud and other white collar crime happens with no arrests, no police involvement, nothing. We need to divest in our entire system of overincarceration and overpolicing. We are not made safer or closer to justice by any of it.
If you think whatever bad conditions in your community would be solved by more police, consider the possibility of spending that same money on schools, health care, drug addiction treatment, housing support. We do everything ass-backwards
