Newark mayor: Defunding police a ‘bourgeois liberal’ solution for much deeper problem

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Newark mayor: Defunding police a ‘bourgeois liberal’ solution for much deeper problem

By artappraiser on Fri, 06/12/2020 - 2:29pm |

Newark's mayor says the defund the police movement is coming from "bourgeois liberals" https://t.co/gZlOFXIiN3
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 12, 2020

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https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/06/11/newark-mayor-defunding-police-a-bourgeois-liberal-solution-for-much-deeper-problem-1292674

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We built on the Ghettoside thesis /drilled in further on the evidence that black communities -- who feel harassed by police -- are simultaneously *underserved/denied justice in our Murder with Impunity project in 2018 https://t.co/bYw2UWnJNH https://t.co/IX618GQ28U
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 14, 2020

I'd add, though, this suggestion is only "counterintuitive" if you haven't spent time listening to black people -- who have always said this
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 14, 2020

Ida B Wells and other civil rights activists were all big into black gun ownership explicitly because, they argued, that the police could not be trusted or counted on to keep black communities safe or procure justice for black people
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 14, 2020

Black Americans have said, since the inception of American policing as we know it, that the police harass and harm them while also not protecting them. This is extremely mainstream black American ideology about policing
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 14, 2020

This is a fantastic series if you haven't read it. In New Orleans, well over half of murders in the French Quarter are typically solved while under a quarter of murders in the Seventh Ward are typically solved. https://t.co/bxAUCwUYS7
— Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) June 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 10:30pm

I’d feel a lot better if our elected officials ever grasped the reality that the 911 paradigm will never deliver police fast enough to prevent crime. Known for decades. Instead, sustained retroactive investigation as a response to violent offenses can and does reduce crime. https://t.co/o8if5MvpK9
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 1:02am

Baltimore Sun reports on discussion going on there:

"... even if money is directed toward root causes instead of symptoms. Some people live in communities with too much violence and want more police patrols for their safety, he noted." https://t.co/kUnYqm0xfn
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) June 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 1:45am

New YouGov national poll (1,570 adults): only 25% favor cutting police funding and 53% oppose:

Do you favor or oppose cutting funding for police departments?
Favor 25%
Oppose 53%@YouGovAmerica/@YahooNews 6/9-10https://t.co/1vecgDXb6k
— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) June 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 2:08am

Anne Milgram:

My thoughts on reforming policing in America, and the lessons we can learn from the Camden police department. ⁦@CNN⁩. How a new kind of policing saved America's most dangerous city (opinion) - CNN https://t.co/UqzmzxF3Bz
— Anne Milgram (@AnneMilgram) June 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 5:04am

About those “abolition will be like the suburbs!” takes. pic.twitter.com/PQj35pIP80
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 15, 2020

If the people making false claims about policing and the suburbs would like to make new, different, more precise claims that are not false I will stop complaining! https://t.co/9P16z3wPoc
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 15, 2020

If what’s really meant is "we should adopt the crime control strategies used by affluent, highly segregated suburbs that use exclusionary zoning to keep all poor people out” then there’s another kind of problem.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 15, 2020

Looking forward to learning something —> https://t.co/hRFnfJUEhG
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 15, 2020

America is a bizarre country where abolishing the police is a more mainstream political position than outlawing guns.
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) June 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 10:48pm

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Newark mayor: Defunding police a ‘bourgeois liberal’ solution for much deeper problem

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