“People of colour, queer people, homeless people and people undergoing mental health crises don’t need to protest to experience police violence”
I’m 60. I’ve never been “helped” by police and would never approach them for help. I’ve witnessed and been harmed by police violence too many times.
It’s a force of systemic, state sanctioned violence. They show again and again, that even if they receive training (I doubt that) they are unable to control themselves in real life situations. Their only approach is violence.
I have great memoires of Camp MacKay as a under privileged kid from a working class family in the western suburbs.
The worry for me is, who are you going to call when you need help.
I am sure many crime families and drug runners are supportive of this "abolishing the police".
The coppers are only human and sure make mistakes but I think most of them are trying to do a good job and are used by the state as a whipping boy when it goes wrong.
A good example of that was the riots the other day over Israeli President Isaac Herzog visit to Australia. He was invited by out Prime Minister to win favor with the Zionist organisations and knew there would be protests and then blames the coppers for responding the the protester.
“People of colour, queer people, homeless people and people undergoing mental health crises don’t need to protest to experience police violence”
I’m 60. I’ve never been “helped” by police and would never approach them for help. I’ve witnessed and been harmed by police violence too many times.
It’s a force of systemic, state sanctioned violence. They show again and again, that even if they receive training (I doubt that) they are unable to control themselves in real life situations. Their only approach is violence.
I do worry this is institutional building work set to be handed to future One Nation governments.
Good argument certainly shakes the status quo assumptions.
I have great memoires of Camp MacKay as a under privileged kid from a working class family in the western suburbs.
The worry for me is, who are you going to call when you need help.
I am sure many crime families and drug runners are supportive of this "abolishing the police".
The coppers are only human and sure make mistakes but I think most of them are trying to do a good job and are used by the state as a whipping boy when it goes wrong.
A good example of that was the riots the other day over Israeli President Isaac Herzog visit to Australia. He was invited by out Prime Minister to win favor with the Zionist organisations and knew there would be protests and then blames the coppers for responding the the protester.