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Get police out of protests.
Get police out of schools.
Get police out of mental health crises.
Get police out of addressing homelessness.
Get police out of addressing substance use.
Get police out of addressing domestic violence.
Get police out of subways.
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Get police out of sex work.
Get police out of COVID-19 enforcement.
Get police out of street closures.
Get police out of concerts.
Get police out of parks.
Get police out of sponsoring youth soccer leagues.
Get police out of harassing food vendors.
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#DefundPolice also means redirecting all of these police resources to 1) developing non-carceral, community led systems, and 2) towards long-term health and well-being in the form of basic needs: education, employment, housing, infrastructure.
That’s how you address the underlying social challenges that policing presently occupies—ineffectively and violently.

#DefundPolice is not chaos or mayhem.

To the contrary, it is about building common sense, fiscally sound, moral, racially just policy.
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