police abolition
With the highly decentralized system of US law enforcement, that might actually be possible? Beautiful idea. In Europe you’d have to go at the national, or at least regional level…
I like to remind folks that police are a modern invention with departments like Scotland Yard being the oldest among them (not sure if it’s THE oldest but it’s of that group for sure). They replaced the shifty volunteer and bounty system. They too can be replaced with something less faulty such as community safety patrols and the like that don’t need weapons to minimize violence and report crimes for investigation.
At least here in LA, the news stations seem to be trying to improve the way the protests are reported. There is always the temptation to show just the worst, but even when they do that it shows that the looters are not the demonstrators. In a recent case, the people looting a pharmacy where shown to escape using cars that were already waiting for them.
As KABC Channel 7 anchor Marc Brown covers the ongoing protests against police brutality, as well as the unrest that has followed, he’s mindful of not repeating some of ways that local TV did — and didn’t — cover the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.
“In 1992, it became just coverage of looting, coverage of fires,” he told Variety of the events following the Rodney King trial, in which officers were found not guilty in the beating of an African American man, despite video proof of the assault. “The problem between the community and police kind of got glossed over and left behind in the carnage that we were having to report on.”
Apparently, huge oil reserves have been discovered under the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., considering the large number of US soldiers posted in front of the structure.
Good. Shut down shipping to every small town in the country until they stop being complicit with Trump’s shit
That’s the second reply to this tweet. Although, not from a copsucker apparently.
They’re ammo-wanking. “It wasn’t tear gas, it was an air dispersed eye irritant. They weren’t rubber bullets, they were foam.”
Szabo isn’t ammo-wanking in that other thread, but the cops are when they make these claims. Technically they’re telling the truth, but realistically it’s irrelevant.
Like when there’s a mass shooting and certain people feel a need to argue about the exact type of firearm.
I just got done watching that ‘press conference’.
Holy crap. Can you imagine what’s going through the heads of our active duty soldiers, reservists and veterans when they saw our defense secretary run out of that conference with his tail between his legs? It was an amazing display of cowardice.
Why yes, he had to make an inspection of the bunker…
That late at night…
When people were yelling and burning stuff in front of the White House…
There are tens of thousands of cops in precincts, that’s not something that gets taken over from the inside. The protests are not exactly in rural areas.
On top of that, there are the county sheriff’s departments and the state police and the militarized organizations like SWAT and the actual federal agents that will all stand the line with each other.
If you make it so that good people refuse to be part of the police state, then the police state will be run by bad people! So keep cooperating with it, please, it’s the moral thing to do. 
