• GadgeteerZA@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    It’s a click-bait headline - this is what the rest of the article actually says:

    replace the police department with a new public safety department focused on a “comprehensive public safety approach” that would include officers “if necessary to fulfill the department’s responsibilities.”

    They’re not going for a policing-free community.

  • chad1234@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    It won’t happen because capitalism requires force to maintain property relations.

    At most, maybe they could rename the division or merge it with a neighboring division, thereby “abolishing MPD”, or do accounting trickery to say its “defunded” but they have not even done this