Actual police abolitionists don't support getting rid of the police and that being the end of it. The idea would be to replace the police with a new public safety organization free of the racism and the paranoia and the "thin blue line" mentality. That's not an impossible objective to achieve.
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.