Rethinking 'safety' in the wake of Uvalde
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Abolitionists Analysis of Public Safety
You know, police are violence workers. That's what distinguishes them from other kinds of government interventions. And so once we have that analysis, we should understand that policing should be the tool of absolute last resort. If we can't figure out any other way to resolve a problem, then, you know, we have policing as it exists now. An abolitionists analysis helps us make the right decision in that moment. What we're saying is we want to build a whole new infrastructure of public safety not rooted in violence and races.
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