HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: The solution is not to fix or reform policing. The solution is to *abolish* policing, ...

The solution is not to fix or reform policing. The solution is to *abolish* policing, so that no segment of society has a privileged relationship to the exercise of violence.

If no actor has a privileged relationship to violence, then no actor has any advantage that could allow it to try to seize control of all of society. We don’t have to hope for the best and just grin and bear it when the cops decide they’re going to make up whatever law they’d like to enforce today. We can take responsibility, as a society, for keeping each other safe without risking the entirety of our freedom.

If you’re worried that the abolition of policing would create chaos and violence, with people just deciding who they’re going to hurt as they please, I’m left to ask: how would that be any worse than our actual lived status quo?

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/08/15/portland-police-chief-says-she-decided-to-sweep-occupy-ice-camp-with-or-without-the-mayors-support/