I want to emphasize this point from this morning's thread: To say we don't need police is as dangerous & as illogical as being anti-vax
We need functional police that protect everyone equally & then hold them highly accountable b/c of the level of power we give them
We need functional police that protect everyone equally & then hold them highly accountable b/c of the level of power we give them
2/ Literal thinkers, solipsists, naive utopians etc won't understand how well something works - like vaccines - until they get rid of them... and then kids die from measles
Without something to maintain social order we'll be reduced to real un-cinematic anarchy
Without something to maintain social order we'll be reduced to real un-cinematic anarchy
3/ Thinking we can just use our neighborhood-watch to protect & prevent serious crime is like saying our natural immune system will protect us from disease so why use vaccines?
B/c vaccines boost that immune system & work together! When they don't is when you get really sick
B/c vaccines boost that immune system & work together! When they don't is when you get really sick
4/ That's what's happened to many police depts, they're an immune system attacking the host body: BIPOC who are incorrectly targeted as a disease when they're the core of the body politic
When we call a social ill a 'cancer' this is why. It behaves much the same way
When we call a social ill a 'cancer' this is why. It behaves much the same way
5/ The answer isn't get rid of the immune system, it's boost it.
Police are there to respond & treat the body politic but are perverted - by the same dynamic that makes the GOP into The Second Confederacy - into identifying some of the body as foreign & need of violent control
Police are there to respond & treat the body politic but are perverted - by the same dynamic that makes the GOP into The Second Confederacy - into identifying some of the body as foreign & need of violent control
6/ Look at the the weird way white people will yell at the PD 'I pay your salary' in a way that BIPOC wouldn't even dream of: b/c that's the perverted dynamic we live in
White supremacy is marbled into American culture & history like a cancer (see above) and must be rooted out
White supremacy is marbled into American culture & history like a cancer (see above) and must be rooted out
7/ But the cancer isn't the healthy body
In sum, anyone calling for the destruction of the *concept* of police is ignoring a real threat to people like me, just as someone defending our current system is ignoring the visible threat to many - likely most - Americans
In sum, anyone calling for the destruction of the *concept* of police is ignoring a real threat to people like me, just as someone defending our current system is ignoring the visible threat to many - likely most - Americans
