this is the best explanation I've seen for "defund the police" as a slogan and policy
this article is very good as well: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/why-crime-isnt-the-question-and-police-arent-the-answer

and see this thread, which includes the astonishing fact that the 3-year recidivism rate for prisoners who had access to pell grants and got a college degree was 5% versus 40% for those who didn't https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1302673339090116608
spoiler alert: they got rid of the pell grants, bc the purpose of the neoliberal penal state is not to reduce crime, it is to punish those in the lower regions of the class and racial hierarchy. for more details see wacqaunt's work linked in this thread: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1294310339652329474
see this thread for another concrete proposal as part of the "defund the police" movement https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1334247943449292803
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