@SRuhle Stephanie I love you, but this is problematic.
Defund the police means employ policy to demilitarize the police departments AND stop assigning the bills to taxpayers for police offenses.
Why should the taxpayer hold the bill for civil settlements for rampant police abuse?
Defund the police means employ policy to demilitarize the police departments AND stop assigning the bills to taxpayers for police offenses.
Why should the taxpayer hold the bill for civil settlements for rampant police abuse?
@SRuhle Defund the police means hold police unions accountable for their members. Defund the police means civil settlements should be handled out of the police pension budget and NOT taxpayer dollars. I’m willing to BET I’d cop pensions were levied in these settlements- they’d find a way
@SRuhle to speak up against the bad cops in their departments. If you don’t make it a financial hardship to them- nothing will change and you know this. We absolutely mean to disrupt their salaries and their damn pensions if it means saving black lives!
@SRuhle And so I’m really guessing you’re not ready to have the conversation about how the entire system works. Police are the front line thugs for prosecutors and judges who are compensated to fund the prison pipeline system with disadvantaged people of color.
@SRuhle The cash bail system, the child support system all work in tandem to ensure that there is a constant stream of black and brown lives to fund the prison industrial complex. And, know what else? Corporations invest in the prison pipeline system- using their managed plans to invest
@SRuhle in stock that benefits in prison labor Prison REITS, etc. The slave trade went from cotton to funneling disadvantaged men & women into the prison system. America HAS to have that conversation. Enough of the teetering back & forth. Either we are REALLY for the end of this or not.
