It's a good question, I really don't have an answer. I have comrades who organize basically 8hrs a day helping with bail relief and police reform policies. When I made the same points as I just did, their perspective seems to line up more with yours, I guess the more strictly abolitionist stance.
My perspective is from as a relatively well off position in a place with high crime and homelessness problems, so it's a bit skewed. Getting held up & robbed by a homeless person sucks, so my instinct is "damn if only there were cops around." But I at least have the frame of mind to know my instinct is missing the full picture.
Big IDK energy in this thread for me, at least strategically speaking.
It's a good question, I really don't have an answer. I have comrades who organize basically 8hrs a day helping with bail relief and police reform policies. When I made the same points as I just did, their perspective seems to line up more with yours, I guess the more strictly abolitionist stance.
My perspective is from as a relatively well off position in a place with high crime and homelessness problems, so it's a bit skewed. Getting held up & robbed by a homeless person sucks, so my instinct is "damn if only there were cops around." But I at least have the frame of mind to know my instinct is missing the full picture.
Big IDK energy in this thread for me, at least strategically speaking.