@rbreich we must raise our standards for law enforcement, provide better training & alternative solutions such as mental health care this means funding not defunding. We cannot allow the status quo to continue, being pulled over for a traffic stop should never be a death sentence.

@rbreich work with Radley Balko. people say defund the Police, but one of the key factors driving unnecessary stops is HOW they are funded.
The systemic incentives driven by tying precariously funded forces and officers to Ticket Quota-driven KPIs and property seized as funding sources, increases unnecessary citizen/police friction.
As an Economist you understand how misapplied incentives work.

@rbreich They need to aw knowledge there is a problem and be part of the effort to fix it. If they don’t want to participate they need to be replaced.

@rbreich Humans behave in a number of ways when they are afraid. There’s a body of research on fear responses. So many people turn the tables on the detained, for ‘escalating the situation’ by fleeing or not following orders. Police are agents of a brutal justice system that uses threat of incarceration to operate a giant tax collection system. Poor people are terrified of these tax collectors with the power to jail. They run, they get angry.