by Like I have been saying: Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would “dismantle” the department. “It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe,” Lisa Bender, the council president, said. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.” Bender went on to say she and the eight other council members that joined the rally are committed to ending the city’s relationship with the police force and “to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.” This is what happens when a paramilitary model gets conflated with a proper domestic security model that
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Like I have been saying:
Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would “dismantle” the department.
“It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe,” Lisa Bender, the council president, said. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.”
Bender went on to say she and the eight other council members that joined the rally are committed to ending the city’s relationship with the police force and “to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe.”This is what happens when a paramilitary model gets conflated with a proper domestic security model that emphasizes law enforcement, peacekeeping and safety model over dominance-submission.
It worthwhile recalling that the priorities of governance are providing security, preserving good order, and fostering wellbeing in that order. People feel this on a gut level when they perceive that their security is under attack and order is collapsing around them.
The answer is not a paramilitary response or, worse, a military one, since that increases the feeling of insecurity rather than decreasing it by producing a war zone mentality.
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Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force
The officers we spoke with said the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association’s statement asserting all 57 officers resigned from ERT in a "show of support” with the two officers that were suspended without pay is not true.
“I don’t understand why the union said it’s a thing of solidarity. I think it sends the wrong message that ‘we’re backing our own’ and that’s not the case,” said one officer with whom we spoke.
“We quit because our union said [they] aren’t legally backing us anymore. So why would we stand on a line for the City with no legal backing if something [were to] happen? Has nothing to do with us supporting,” said another.
EXCLUSIVE: Two Buffalo Police ERT members say resignation was not in solidarity with suspended officers
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