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Divest/invest is a good strategy and way to pull people over to abolition imo but I'm starting to get worried? I think maybe @cemicool has talked about this.
But it isn't simply just, abolish the police because other social services are underfunded. It's abolish the police because their existence is founded on killing Black people, poor people, disabled people, etc.
Without that analysis, and without an anti-capitalist framework, policing simply re-invents itself within these systems just through a different name.
Does this make sense? Policing isn't bad *just* because it takes a lot of money? Abolition isnt simply about just fighting for more funding for social services.
I'm thinking about how people are so quick to be like "well actually, defunding isn't about defunding overnight it's about blah blah" with no mentions of like how harm will actually be navigated either.
Lots of "crime" DOES happen because people are striving to meet a financial need AND, there is still violence that lays outside of this. Abolitionists have been thinking about this and building up structures to prevent and handle this and I don't think it helps us to
instead focus on "social services"
