Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control

‘’Street power’ will be dissipated if organizers leave the levers of power in the hands of local Democrats.”

[blackagendareport.com]

“Biden is a proud architect of the mass Black incarceration regime.”

{Despite the breathtaking size, intensity and multi-racial character of this month’s protests, and the record-breaking popularity of the insurgent movement, the corporate electoral duopoly – not the loathsome persona of Donald Trump, but the Democrat-Republican tag-team-- remains the greatest impediment to social transformation. They are the institutional enemy. That most emphatically includes the Black political class, virtually all Democrats, who have overseen the steady deterioration of the Black economic condition, managed much of the local workings of the Mass Black Incarceration State, and supported a U.S.war machine that has slaughtered millions of non-whites in the two generations since Dr. King called this country “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, today.”

The bigger the Congressional Black Caucus gets (it now stands at 50 full-voting members in the House), the more servile to party corporate leadership it becomes. By wide margins, the Black Caucus has opposed ending militarization of the police (80 percent “nay,” in 2014); supported elevating the police to a “protected class” and making assault on police a federal “hate” crime (75 percent, in 2018); and voted to further empower the FBI to spy on citizens (two-thirds of the Black Caucus, in 2020). Nearly half the Black members of Congress supported the bombing of Libya and NATO’s invasion of Africa in 2011, and the vast bulk of them have signed off on every escalating war budget put forward by Presidents Obama and Trump. In short, the Black Caucus is a bulwark of systemic racism and U.S. imperial warfare. Not one serving Black congressperson has raised a peep about the ongoing slaughter in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than six million have died under four U.S. presidents.}

“The Black Caucus is a bulwark of systemic racism and U.S. imperial warfare.”

{The biggest luminaries of the Black Caucus, including “Auntie” Maxine Waters, of California, South Carolina’s James Clyburn, and New York’s Hakeem Jeffries and Greg Meeks, are today rallying around New York Democratic incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel to beat back progressive Black challenger Jamaal Bowman , a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Caucus has slavishly followed every directive of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi since she ordered them to refrain from holding hearings on Katrina, in 2005. They are collaborators in the duopoly’s greatest crimes against Black America, and the world.}

{Lori Lightfoot is a guardian of white oligarchic power in Chicago, an exemplar of the melanin-over-substance politics practiced by the Black Misleadership Class – the same craven crowd that, in their formative years, preached that the movement of the Sixties must shift from the “streets” to the “suites.” In urban America, some of the oligarchs’ most dependable servants are Black, and nearly all are Democrats. Their strategy will be to entangle proponents of defunding the police in endless fights over whether dwindling tax dollars will go to police or social programs, while ensuring that the community controls neither. In the process, movements are demobilized and a portion of those activists that remain are “captured” – joining the Democratic clubhouse.}

I have often pointed that one out myself here many times. In the process, movements are demobilized and a portion of those activists that remain are “captured” – joining the Democratic clubhouse. Just as the current language used today of "defunding" the police is purposely being used to confuse the public and create strife. Rather than simply stating a redistribution of public funds, to embed professional social skills into monitoring certain aspects of calls into the community and into training police.

I would also suggest stations within large problematic communities where you can find a number of abandoned homes that could be transformed into a productive up and personal collision of police, social worker, and community volunteers to create unified watch areas of self policing efforts. If corporations and local business would donate their money to these efforts over buying off local politicians and the various types of police foundations and associations it would better serve the community and expand their employment range. That would then determine a need to restructure the use of these communities from rather using them as a criminal source towards making them a betterment towards a productive aspect of society. Lifting many of them out of poverty, eradicating a vast majority of the night time gang and drug activity, sex trade, and useless child deaths from reckless shootings.