yay!
I'm so pleased the Green Party 2020 Platform does not call for abolishing the police.
I don't think I could vote for a candidate or support an organization that does call for abolishing the police. I'll go as far Left as I can go, so long as we aren't calling to abolish the police. I was thinking I'd have to vote for Biden if the Greens called for abolishing the police.
In some interviews and statements, Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for President, speaks favorably of demands to defund or abolish the police, but he's also clear about what he actually wants --> community control of the police and other police reforms, not abolishing the police altogether.
This is similar to some other people I've spoken with who are sympathetic to demands to defund or abolish the police, while not actually proposing to abolish the police. Apparently some people on the Left want to listen to and acknowledge those who are so upset with current policing practices that they would abolish the police ... we hear you, we sympathize, we understand ... while not intending to actually abolish the police.
I'm not so polite when writing in my journal. I think it is either stupid or disingenuous to speak of abolishing the police. I'll give Howie Hawkins the benefit of the doubt, that he's only trying to show sympathy for abolition, because his platform and his policy statements are about reforming the police rather than abolishing the police.
I sympathize with people who have been abused by the police, but the answer is police reform and community supervision of police.
I don't think I could vote for a candidate or support an organization that does call for abolishing the police. I'll go as far Left as I can go, so long as we aren't calling to abolish the police. I was thinking I'd have to vote for Biden if the Greens called for abolishing the police.
In some interviews and statements, Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for President, speaks favorably of demands to defund or abolish the police, but he's also clear about what he actually wants --> community control of the police and other police reforms, not abolishing the police altogether.
This is similar to some other people I've spoken with who are sympathetic to demands to defund or abolish the police, while not actually proposing to abolish the police. Apparently some people on the Left want to listen to and acknowledge those who are so upset with current policing practices that they would abolish the police ... we hear you, we sympathize, we understand ... while not intending to actually abolish the police.
I'm not so polite when writing in my journal. I think it is either stupid or disingenuous to speak of abolishing the police. I'll give Howie Hawkins the benefit of the doubt, that he's only trying to show sympathy for abolition, because his platform and his policy statements are about reforming the police rather than abolishing the police.
I sympathize with people who have been abused by the police, but the answer is police reform and community supervision of police.