Posted on 11/20/2018 9:53:46 AM PST by Borges
This came from a group called PLOT (Progressive Leaders of Tomorrow). This is apparently not satire.
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Calling the police often escalates situations, puts people at risk, and leads to violence. Anytime you seek help from the police, you're inviting them into your community and putting people who may already be vulnerable into dangerous situations. Sometimes people feel that calling the police is the only way to deal with problems. But we can build trusted networks of mutual aid that allow us to better resolve conflicts ourselves and move towards forms of transformative justice, while keeping police away from our neighborhoods."
1. Don't feel obligated to defend property—especially corporate "private" property. Before confronting someone or contacting the police, ask yourself if anyone is being hurt or endangered by property theft or damage. If the answer is "no," then let it be.
2. If something of yours is stolen and you need to file a report for insurance or other purposes, consider going to the police station instead of bringing cops into your community. You may inadvertently be putting someone in your neighborhood at risk.
3. If you observe someone exhibiting behavior that seems odd to you, don't assume that they are publicly intoxicated. A traumatic brain injury or similar medical episode may be occurring. Ask if they are OK, if they have a medical condition, and if they need assistance.
4. If you see someone pulled over with car trouble, stop and ask if they need help or if you can call a tow truck for them. If the police are introduced to such a situation, they may give punishments and unnecessary tickets to people with car issues, target those without papers, or worse.
5. Keep a contact list of community resources like suicide hotlines. When police are contacted to "manage" such situations, people with mental illness are sixteen times more likely to be killed by cops than those without mental health challenges. [Note: Some suicide hotlines call police and rely heavily on law enforcement. Check local hotlines and make sure you ask about their protocols.]
6. Check your impulse to call the police on someone you believe looks or is acting "'suspicious.” Is their race, gender, ethnicity, class, or housing situation influencing your choice? Such calls can be death sentences for many people.
7. Encourage teachers, coworkers, and organizers to avoid inviting police into classrooms, workplaces, and public spaces. Instead create a culture of taking care of each other and not unwittingly putting people in harm's way. If you're part of a group that's holding a rally or demonstration, DON’T get a permit or otherwise cooperate with the police.
8. If your neighbor is having a party and the noise is bothering you, go over and talk to them. Getting to know your neighbors with community events like block parties is a good way to make asking them to quiet down a little less uncomfortable. Or find another neighbor who is willing to do so.
9. If you see someone peeing in public, just look away! Remember, for example, that many homeless people do not have reliable access to bathrooms.
10. Hold and attend de-escalation, conflict resolution, first-aid, volunteer medic, and self-defense workshops in your neighborhood, school, workplace, or community organization. When possible, donate to these initiatives so they remain recurring.
11. Don't report graffiti and other street artists. If you see work that includes fascistic or hate speech, paint over it with friends.
12. Remember that police can escalate domestic violence situations—especially those involving people of color. You can support friends and neighbors who are being victimized by abusers by offering them a place to stay, a ride to a safe location, or to watch their children. Utilize community resources like safe houses and hotlines.
These ‘people’ need to GTFO of this country.
Once upon a time, I saw highway patrolmen as protectors and promoters of public safety. Now, I see them mostly as revenue agents for the Nanny State. Or Privateers and Highwaymen.
Abbey Hofman?
I’ve called police exactly twice in my life. Once was on my own large outdoor party, it had been invaded by a large number of uninvited guests who were actually throwing beer bottles at the house while I was calling them. Long story, never had a big outdoor party again after that. Second time, I was driving home late at night from a bar, through heavy fog. Came upon an abandoned vehicle in the middle of the road on a very dark unlit stretch of road, the driver had hit a pole and the car was obviously totaled, but driver nowhere to be seen. Somebody could have been killed hitting the wreckage. Other than that, I’ve never engaged them and hope to never have to do so. I no longer trust them, sad to say. Yes I’m sure there are good cops but there are just too many bad apples anymore, and I get the sense that the law is no longer on my side as a conservative, on top of that.
On #4: I used to help people whose cars had broken down. Changed many tires and if I couldn’t fix their problem I’d wait with them till help arrived. I never felt the need to call the police but, I don’t help much after carjackings and robberies started making news.
I'm good thanks. My Glock provides all the self defense I need.
I agree with about 80%, the rest is a bit loony. I personally have no use for the police based on personal past experience, yet I do understand their necessity and support those who are trying to do the right thing. Corrupt cops should receive no mercy or special consideration.
Until more of us are satisfied that we have a Government that is FOR it’s citizens, many will follow this path.
I love how the left believes they would somehow be better off without cops. If they succeed in eliminating government cops, I’m sure they’ll love the vigilance committees and militias that will replace them. They’ll learn that people with a blasé attitude about others’ property rights don’t do so well in that environment.
“Abbey Hofman?”
Yes. Many of the left’s ideas about violent and non violent ways of protesting came from him.
Last night I was listening to the scanner when police were dispatched to a home. A woman there thought she had been stabbed in the heart, and her ovary taken. She had no idea how that happened.
I have no idea who formulated that list, but he must live in a very quiet, relatively safe community.
Some of those suggestions could put you in grave danger, especially domestic violence type scenarios. In some places, you’re likely to find yourself on the receiving end of some vindictive person wanting to burn your house down with you and your family, in it.
Bang on the door of some Roudy party could get you shot, or otherwise retaliated against in some very uncomfortable ways. Especially if hard drugs are being utilized at said party.
You had better know what you’re facing before you bang on the door.
Corporate theft? Most places have an alarm system that triggers with the police so that’s
a relatively safe one to ignore.
I personally am grateful when police are called to some situations such as the sound of gunshots nearby. Stray bullets do enter homes and kill innocent, unintended people. A few years ago a 6 year old was killed as she lay sleeping in her bed by a stray bullet.
Maggots, too.
“Don’t feel obligated to defend property”
The right to have and hold property is basic to civilization.
In the face of theft, some say “it’s only money” or jewelry, or whatever, but the theft is not just a crime against property or an individual...it’s a crime against civilization.
IOW, Snitches get stiches.
I'm sure a judge would throw that out, unless it occurred in a corrupt jurisdiction. That's ridiculous.
People who write stuff like this are the first to call the cops when its their ox being gored. And the first to file a lawsuit.
#3 is a good way to get assaulted or shot.
I’ve called 911 twice, both for accidents with injury I witnessed
Called police once on a theft, got stuff back,
but 2 teenagers got felony theft records because of it,
Feel kinda guilty about that...
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