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.
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No, but it is a good thing, if only a small victory.
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
We’re just getting started.
If only this were true…
Which part isn’t?
The proposal doesn’t propose to wipe out the police force, they want to relegate some of the police’s tasks onto a department. Under the clickbaity headline, the article even admits it:
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.”
Ah, a source issue. Most reports use ‘replace’ instead of ‘wipe out’. Like you say the details of the article are accurate with a headline to grab folks that weren’t already following it.
Could solve a lot of problems. In Northern Ireland, replacing the police ended a war that had lasted 100 years. The devil is in the details though.