"In Veto-Proof Majority, Minneapolis City Council Says It Will Dismantle Police Department"
I am a strong Democrat, progressive and always will be. Dismantling the police sounds like eradication of it. There will always be murders, rapists and thieves. To dismantle the police and invest in community led public safety seems arduous if not a pipedream. The left of which I am a part needs to deal with realities. There is violent crime among us. Let's take what we have in the police departments, get rid of bad apples, make certain actions like chokeholds are forbidden, make the police departments transparent and make them responsible for their illegal and immoral actions!
Dismantling
police departments needs a definition of just what "dismantling"
means. If it means reform I can agree with that. Reform must be done
with precision, care and discretion. To say dismantle without any
assurance that it will be put back together in some better form simply
scares many into opposing the needed changes. Dismantle is not a good
word to use, reform is a better one.
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