[ExI] Cory Massimino on advocating police abolition

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:15 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:11 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:07 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> >> Because the phrase "defund the police" is suddenly all in the news
>>>> and is basically a good idea,
>>>>
>>>
>>> > ### *"Privatize the police", "Reform the police", "Make police great
>>> again" might be good ideas but "Defund the police" is just stupid.*
>>>
>>
>>  Abolishing the police is stupid and advocated only by crackpots, but I
>> specifically said "*Defunding the police is not the same as abolishing
>> the police*".
>>
>>
> ### Well, dunno. Unless you expect cops to work for free, defunding the
> police actually *is* abolishing the police, for most values of "is".
>

John means a not-full defunding.  Take away certain expensive toys that
invite misuse by their mere presence in police departments, reassign
certain duties away from police so they don't need as many police and can
focus training of the rest on their remaining duties, and so on.
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