root cause of what? the current system or mass incarceration

Idk man u said private prisons aren’t the root cause, im asking what is

Holy s*** yes the police are incompetent but let’s not act like they never solve crimes or robberies lol

Well yea but also it’s kinda really hard to fix anything in the police force with private prisons running

but what if i rob you and then sell or destroy your possessions before the police catch me?

B**** DO IT LOOK LIKE I CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU ( I WANTED TO PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON YOU BUT I'M ALREADY TYPING IN CAPS LOCK SO THERE'S)

THAT THINK MAKE POINT "SEEM BETTER"

"I think what should really be focused on is private prisons and the school to prison pipeline. That’s the root of a lot of issues we have rn, the state of police is kinda just a symptom"

well what do you mean by symptom

Then that’s an L.

Now who’s the one adding on convenient layers lol

bye

BYE

So then the police don't protect you.

you are correct but this is more than argument for replacing enforcement-based policing with protection-based policing than it is for complete establishment of this (wider) form of public service

Police being extra aggressive and looking for ppl to arrest when they really shouldn’t be arrested is a symptom of private prisons. That’s what I mean

Bruh like it or not we need the police

I don’t like them niggas either but let’s be serious here

Something like 11 pages over this nonsense discussion lol

I think it's an argument for creating a society where the idea that i'm going to rob this person either for own personal want of their possessions or because i can sell it for money isn't actually a thing that enters into the public consciousness.

Sleep time I gotta work my capitalist corporate job in the AM

same. night niggas

Idk man I think police are necessary

I don’t even like them either

dumbasses itt defending rich people because they think that they’ll be rich?

lol

oh

well in that case you can just look at history and see that this occurred before private prisons plus private prisons only hold something like 8% of prisoners.

Until We Reckon - Danielle Sered
The End of Policing - Alex Vitale
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
Are Prisons Obsolete - Angela Davis.

Also check out this website. If you don’t have time to read everything, it links to videos and audio material that are helpful.

readingtotransgress.com/reading-list/emergency-learning-package-imagining-a-world-without-police-and-policing-systems

Abolishing the police is ambitious but so was freedom for slave during slavery.

Not the same thing at all. Cole was trying to tell her how to message herself better but came off as a douche, Noname is criticizing Beyoncé for repackaging african culture in a homogenous way and supporting capitalism. S***, Beyoncé was just on BET right now trying to tell activists on the street to go out and vote. Love Beyoncé but she’s a f***ing hack like her husband and isn’t willing to go far enough to deal with the issues we’re facing

I linked some material above this post. Read and tell me what you think. I thought the exact same. But doing research changed my mind.

what was the website u mentioned lol