Reject any proposed police department budget expansion, and implement the highest possible budget cuts every year until the budget is reduced to zero.
Cut all police salaries until they are reduced to zero.
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Institute a freeze on all new hires.
End all new investments in police training and facility renovations.
Completely remove funding for public relations.
Eliminate paid administrative leave.
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Mar 10, 2021 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Abolition is not about anarchy, or absence of accountability
As Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, it’s about the presence of life-affirming institutions
We decrim victimless “crimes”
And hold perpetrators of true crimes truly accountable to the people and conmunities they’ve harmed
Through reparative, transformative justice, victims and perpetrators (who’ve typically been victims themselves) are repaired and transformed through mediation, rehabilitation, and service to the community
Nov 8, 2020 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
#KamalaHarris pushed a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents and violating human rights, and continues to defend the existence of ICE
#KamalaHarris laughed about putting parents in jail if their kids missed school, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, and families of color, including homeless mothers
