Posted on 04/19/2021 10:38:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) called for an end to policing, claiming that "it is inherently and intentionally racist. Police cruising high-crime neighborhoods and enforcing arrest warrants disproportionately impacts minorities. Police know that minority suspects are far more likely to resist arrest and that in an effort to subdue resistance great bodily harm and/or death may result."
Tlaib denied that the reform she wants entails abolishing police. "We can still have police, but they don't have to be armed and invade minority areas," she argued. "They don't need guns to make traffic stops. If they're afraid to make traffic stops without carrying firearms they can stay in the office and issue citations through the mail. As for more violent crimes like robbery, rape, and murder, detectives can wait at the precinct until such crimes are reported to them and then visit the crime scene after the dangerous felon or felons have already left. This would avoid deadly confrontations. Once they figure out who committed the crime they could send a letter or make a call requesting that the perpetrator turn himself in."
"As we saw in the case of Daunte Wright, confronting criminals is dangerous," Tlaib pointed out. "Someone almost always gets hurt. And for what? We all know that sending criminals to jail only makes them worse. They make new dangerous friends and learn more ways to break the law. Wasn't it Jesus who advised to 'turn-the-other-cheek?' What if we make a heroic effort to implement a new 'forgive-and-forget' approach to dealing with misbehavior? We could save the expense of housing people in prisons. We could forestall the resentment that brews in the minds of prisoners when they see worse people, like Trump, walking around free. How do we know that a new approach won't lead to fewer crimes being committed? I think it's worth a try."
Fellow socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) agreed, saying "Daunte's killing is not a random, disconnected 'accident.' It was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence against those who disagree with government policies." Daunte's disagreement with government policies was manifested by his attempted armed robbery of a female acquaintance. Authorities had issued a warrant for his arrest for this disagreement. He was accidentally shot while resisting arrest for this prior crime.
"Maybe we should follow the lead of police in Atlanta," Ocasio-Cortez suggested. "Instead of wading out into the dangerous streets to confront killers they are issuing a series of PSAs asking street gangs to stop shooting each other. My favorite ad is the one saying 'Anger + Guns Adds Up to Nothing Good.' I think it'll make people stop and think before they pull the trigger. I'll get to work on a piece of legislation that mandates this type of strategy nationwide."
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Good, then we can burn down her house and nothing will happen. Right? You filthy scumbag parasite.
I’m all for "minority areas” having their own police, or none, if they choose.
Of course, the unspoken point for Tlaib really is that her goal is to make this law “national.” so its really about removing yet another form of local control and government and giving it to the fascists at the top.
Given the manufactured rage against yet another independent form of local government, I don’t know why any cop, especially white ones, enter these areas anyway.
The police are “invading” high crime areas? Jesus
I will take them seriously when they disband the capitol police and have zero personal security details.
“minority areas”
they dont even see their own blatant racist worldviews
Ok then, send all the capitol police home
Even though it’s satire, let’s start with only tlaib’s district for a trial period of five years as an experiment in “reimagined policing.”
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