There was a brief moment when ‘defund the police’ was an interesting idea. Until The People Who Don’t Know When To Stop™️ entered the group chat and said, akshually, we really really want to defund the police nytimes.com/2020/08/10/nyr…
As I said, from my own little experience here in the U.K., there’s a lot of stuff that police are forced to do that they don’t really want to do. ‘Defund the Police’ was an eye catching way to talk about those issues and maybe get consensus around them. But here we are
Anyway, none of what is in that article is new. As I’ve been telling people for years - read Jill Leovy’s Ghettoside. It’s all in there.
This leads me to my final point - always ask yourself; who are the people leading the cause I support? This is about as important as the cause itself. This thing I passionately believe in, who are the loudest voices shaping the public debate around it?
Who, as in, when you take away this cause from them, who are they? Very important question
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