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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by eric_b on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:25PM (#23470509)
Yes! "End the War on Drugs" is exactly the kind of thing that could get meaningful traction and has a relatively concrete set of goals.
Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by gremlinsinc on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:26AM (#23473908)
How about end incarceration for non-violent offenses?

Drugs, Shop-lifting, DUI, Robbery (unarmed), Prostitution, Protesting, etc...

We have tech to monitor ppl wherever they go, we could easily monitor these people w/ ankle bracelets etc and make sure they're behaving. We could require them to go to therapy and figure out the root of why they do what they do, you know what you'd do w/ a child who's acting out and misbehaving....

Maybe we curtail a lot of issues.... Save prison for pedophiles, rapists, murderers, assaults, etc....

Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by Fjolsvith on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:46PM (#23470715)
Probably still confusing in any place besides mid-to-large urban areas in the US.
Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:51PM (#23470756)
Thanks to the opioid epidemic, this is no longer true. There are huge swaths of rural and Rust Belt America that now realize that the criminal justice approach to a drug problem is counter productive.