Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada

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Each year, police budgets generally increase. But rather than increased safety, all we see is increased militarization and criminalization: sandela BlackLivesMatter HuffPostOpinion

. Wealthier, non-Black, non-Indigenous, privileged communities tend tosafe because they have a rarely used option to call the police when they feel their safety is threatened. But, they are generally not interacting with police; their communities are not policed in the same way, and they are not targeted for criminalization.

Defunding the police can free up funding that we can reinvest in services that provide real safety for both kinds of communities. The communities that are constantly exposed to police violence should not be deprived of effective safety and security services simply because more privileged communitiesWe can rethink the way that we create safety in our communities by creating alternative services that truly create safety and security for everyone.

 

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Stop saying 'defund'. It evokes too negative a reaction because people aren't intelligent enough to understand the true meaning of the movement. Start saying things like: enhance augment reinvent improve recalibrate upgrade We need to approach this from a new angle.

sandela OMG written by a founder of the BLM Burn Loot Murder club. And I'm a triple minority so take your racist BS & stuff it.

OMG an article written by a BLM'er Burn Loot Murder club founder. And I'm a triple minority so take your racist BS and stuff it.

BS putting more money into mental health crisis services will save more lives.

Savages. This is what fascism looks like... modern day brown shirts demanding you salute them with a fist in the air.

Lousy article. Idiotic.

When you seek them out to throw shit at them, that's true.

Yes they do. If they don't investigate and arrest violent criminals more crime will occur. That is literally preventing violence.

sandela

sandela Is the problem in Canada as bad as in the USA?

sandela see this web site to vent anger be sure to see the 1st video in Feb 2019 to start with on You-tube. ( I do not want to put 2nd link in same tweet) may confuse twitter . The game is afoot.

sandela LMAO. Who's going to arrest all the Black and Native men who beat the absolute shit out of their women on a constant basis?

sandela Whoa

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