'A better approach would be to take working-class people’s very real concerns about public safety seriously, stop trading in libertarian rhetoric about getting better public services by slashing funding levels,' writes BenBurgis
important big-picture ideas about how the economic foundations of our society could be restructured in a more egalitarian direction.in important efforts like the unionization drives at Starbucks stores around the country. They’ll continue to get my dues money every month.
Would vigilantes just informally patrol their neighborhoods—like George Zimmerman was doing when he killed Trayvon Martin? Or would there still be some sort of publicly owned entity in charge of law enforcement? If so, how would such an entity not just be a reformed version of the police? And withoutform of imprisonment, no matter how humane and minimalistic, would the only remaining strategy for dealing with violent criminals who pose an ongoing threat to their communities be to kill them?on...
Police advance while sending a volley of tear gas toward demonstrators protesting the killing of teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 17, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri.Too many affluent people are domestic abusers or rapists, for example, for me to believe that economic conditions are thesource of interpersonal violence. But I don’t have any trouble believing that the main drivers of violent crime would be dramatically reduced in such a society.
The problem is that—given that we live in a society afflicted by poverty, deep economic inequality, and all the social ills that come with those things—even “defunding” the police in the sense of reducing budget lines is extremely unpopular with the working-class people of all races who would form the base of any successful version of the left.Ed Jones/AFP via Getty
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