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.
I suspect the group that would most appreciate these ideas are the police, it keeps them out of the hood, out of danger and in neighborhoods that appreciate their work. And as usual, these ideas are for the masses, not the lunatic leftists who wrote them who would be the first to call the cops if some large, aggressive, protected class person came after them.
Seat belt law applies only on public roads
She was dumb
No, she was harassed and bullied by an absolute jerkwad undeserving of the trust and authority of his position.
That’s what happens when those who grew up when the police actually DID “serve and protect” meet up with the thugs with badges we have today.
76 year old woman bullied then robbed at gunpoint by a badge wearing thug, and you say “she was dumb”. Wow.
“That’s what happens when those who grew up when the police actually DID “serve and protect”-———”
And when was that?
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groupthink can’t be escaped. it’s even here on FR.
Small towns in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Mayberry was definitely idealized but for many if not most, that’s close to how most communities were.
Now you can’t even have a beer on your front step without someone getting bent out of shape.
In retrospect many decades later, should have lawyered up and taken the blind old bastard for all I could get.
But back then, we did not think to sue at the drop of the hat.
Small towns,of course,but not so in most places-——they could be brutal back in the good old days.
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Don’t call the cops, shoot the bastard. Otherwise some damned liberal judge will just let him off.
I am a lifelong conservative, an ordained minister who has never been drunk much less drugged, and I want nothing to do with the police if I can help it.
I have had a few highly unpleasant encounters. I want no more.
RE: 4. Long ago, some wholesome Christian teenage acquaintances in the pre-cellphone era had a car breakdown on a mountain road after a late movie. A cop found them. They felt saved. He pushed their car to a side road with his cruiser, cited them for illegal parking, and left without contacting anyone for them.
The police are not our friends.
I grew up in a town known then as “little Detroit”.
The cops there could be nasty, but only to those that were constantly on the wrong side of the law.
They were tough but; they didn’t intimidate, threaten and bully senior citizens just because they could.
I count a number of retired cops in my circle of friends, and some of them have had this or that sort of “intimidation act” pulled on them by this “new breed”.
This is a recent development (the last 10-15 years), and it’s not good. We need trustworthy police, and they need the support of the community they choose to serve. Things could get very ugly very quickly otherwise. Remember the Battle of Athens Tennessee.
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