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[–]Sittingonarainbow 34 insightful - 1 fun34 insightful - 0 fun35 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Why can’t folks imagine a world without the cops? Why can’t folks imagine a world without prisons? Why can’t people expand their imaginations to include community care, to include an abolitionist future?”

I may be wrong, but I don't think this is a winning message; particularly in the two weeks after a rapist awaiting trial was released due to Covid and proceeded to murder his victim, then the MA Bail Fund paid bail for the rapist who promptly raped another woman.

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

They also want the dirty cops arrested (which I agree with)... But if there are no jails, where do we put them?

It's definitely a head scratcher.

[–]RedditHatesLesbians 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In my naive opinion we need prisons, only we need to revaluate who goes there. Prison should be reserved for the real bad people, not drug addicts (who will get more drugs in prison anyway, punishment definitely doesn't help here) and other prettier crimes that I can't list off the top of my head. Imo all drugs should be legal but that's a different matter. But humanity will always have sociopaths, psychopaths etc and if they're allowed to run around with only a slap on the wrist for even a day he'd change his mind real quick about abolishing prisons.

[–]OrneryStruggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

no one cares about this. virtue signaling is more important than saving lives by keeping violent felons behind bars.

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The problem is, women at large won’t hear about these stories via mass media.