RT @rbreich
Law enforcement killed 1,176 people last year, making it the deadliest year for police violence since 2013.

Instead of pouring more funds into our brutal system of policing, what if we invested in our communities?

It's time for us to reimagine the meaning of "public safety."

@rbreich Lacking foundational education that places highest/best aptitude first; the US will always be worse-than-first in following effects. Roots-first. AncestryDNA does a better job with employing genomics and bioinformatics in accurately targeting aptitudes, than US public education.
@rbreich Those were reported deaths. There are probably just as many not reported to the national databases
@rbreich they can go back to protecting the public instead of themselves and exploiting the public
@rbreich One way of investing it in community and reduce police violence is to start a real debate on well regulated militias and democracy, so that people with guns are in militias, and those are well regulated by a directly democratically accountable public. Then you reduce violence and improve the community. See the Swiss system.
@rbreich Reimagine "public safety"... and "peace officer"!
@rbreich Calling policing "public safety" is right in line with a country that calls the "it's not airborne, masks are optional" crew the "center for disease control"
@rbreich The police need to be disarmed. I realize it's a pipe dream in 'murica, but I can dream.
@rbreich Why don't we arm some cops on the front line with tranquilizers. We treat animals better than we treat citizens.

@rbreich

You know - from the outside, America looks like a collection of thugs and warlords living in lawless armed tribes?
Leader of the free world, my ass!