<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">When people say “no police” they mean that the police force and prison system as they currently exist should be completely and totally dismantled and a new thing created in their place.<div><br></div><div>Why?</div><div><br></div><div>Police Shooting/Killing/Maiming the Disabled/Mentally ill and/or their caregivers: </div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_James_Boyd">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_James_Boyd</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jeremy_McDole">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jeremy_McDole</a></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377699/amp/Teen-left-bloodied-bruised-cop-sicced-K-9-dog-mother-called-911-fears-son-suicidal.html">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377699/amp/Teen-left-bloodied-bruised-cop-sicced-K-9-dog-mother-called-911-fears-son-suicidal.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Police shooting people for being near/in cars:</div><div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/florida-police-shooting/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/florida-police-shooting/index.html</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile</a></div><div><br></div><div>Police suffocating/choking people to death:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jonny_Gammage">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jonny_Gammage</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd</a></div><div><br></div><div>Airsoft Deaths: </div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_Lopez">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_Lopez</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice</a></div><div><br></div><div>No-knock Warrants:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor#Persons_involved">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Duncan_Lemp">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Duncan_Lemp</a> (hey, he was in a militia!)</div><div><br></div><div>Suspicious deaths in police custody:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland</a></div><div><br></div><div>Shot/killed while protesting, or being near protests:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Sean_Monterrosa">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Sean_Monterrosa</a></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_McAtee">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_McAtee</a></div><div><br></div><div>Mistaken Identify:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling</a></div><div><br></div><div>Officers joke about murdering people:</div><div><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/sean-reed-justice-indianapolis-police-shooting-facebook-1502502">https://www.newsweek.com/sean-reed-justice-indianapolis-police-shooting-facebook-1502502</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cops shooting dogs:</div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/amp/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Police officers committing domestic violence:</div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/380329/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/380329/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The fact that “SWATTING” exists:</div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting</a></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150216193032/http://newsok.com/court-document-reveals-more-about-sentinel-ok-bomb-threat/article/5386857">https://web.archive.org/web/20150216193032/http://newsok.com/court-document-reveals-more-about-sentinel-ok-bomb-threat/article/5386857</a></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180709154458/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-swatting/california-man-two-others-indicted-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-case-idUSKCN1IP065">https://web.archive.org/web/20180709154458/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-swatting/california-man-two-others-indicted-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-case-idUSKCN1IP065</a></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/fortnite-world-champion-swatted-while-streaming-on-twitch/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/fortnite-world-champion-swatted-while-streaming-on-twitch/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cops are “scared” at work but there are plenty of other more deadly occupations:</div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1002500001">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1002500001</a></div><div><a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/work-related-homicides-the-facts.pdf">https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/work-related-homicides-the-facts.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Bullshit police calls: </div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/05/27/stop-calling-the-police-on-black-people/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/05/27/stop-calling-the-police-on-black-people/amp/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cavity Searches: </div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/1873153001">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/1873153001</a> </div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/us/tampon-san-antonio.amp.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/us/tampon-san-antonio.amp.html</a></div><div><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/michigan-lawsuit-officer-daniel-mack-illegal-body-cavity-search.amp">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/michigan-lawsuit-officer-daniel-mack-illegal-body-cavity-search.amp</a></div><div><br></div><div>Civil Forfeiture:</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States</a></div><div><br></div><div>Planting evidence: </div><div><a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-planting-evidence">https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-planting-evidence</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sexual misconduct:</div><div><a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/women-and-criminal-justice/nypd-police-officers-union-wants-keep-sexual">https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/women-and-criminal-justice/nypd-police-officers-union-wants-keep-sexual</a></div><div><br></div><div>And all of that compounded by police “unions” and the “blue code of silence”.</div><div><br></div><div>Anecdotally I have:</div><div>- had police show up to my home when I (3) “play dialed” 911 on a phone I thought wasn’t plugged in and my entire family had to go into the lawn, in front of our neighbors, in our underwear</div><div>- had a police officer pull a hard u-turn in front of me, blocking the road, and accusing me (12) of being a runaway</div><div>- had a police officer pull a hard u-turn across 4 lanes of traffic to accuse me (14) of being a prostitute when my bus was late</div><div>- had a police officer threaten to commit me (17) for a letter I wrote to a friend; when he said I could leave I fled, crying, and was later detained by him and threatened with arrest for slamming a door</div><div>- had a police officer blame me (18) for my own rape, and belittled for my father threatening to kill me; despite that, they felt the need to handcuff my parents and threaten to shoot them</div><div>- was handcuffed when I (19) told my councilor I was suicidal</div><div>- had the cops called on me (23) for knocking on doors to find my lost dog</div><div>- had cops jump my fence, enter my home without knocking through my back door, and draw their guns on me because I (24) was taking a nap with the AC off and the back door open</div><div>- had cops pull me (25) over on suspicion of drug use when I was learning how to drive</div><div><br></div><div>And you know when I did NOT call the police? Oh wait, I have never called the police. (Unless you count that “call” when I was like 4.)</div><div><br></div><div>I have been raped (filed a report), threatened to be killed (filed a report) and had a gun brandished and pointed at me (Trump had just been elected and I was “too white”, I did not file a report, I just moved). </div><div><br></div><div>In maybe 99% of cases, calling police makes any situation worse. So maybe just... don’t. There’s no need to arrest or accost people for minor violations, or shoot people for having loud parties. Just fine them and be done with it. </div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>