Dear quarantineThe movement to defund should be to DEMOCRATIZE districts where residents SHARE responsibility
for law enforcement, so like college campus towns, they can hire their own police, along with teachers, doctors and legal defense.
That will do the most to solve these problems of disparity and discrimination:
by teaching ALL people to depend on themselves for self-govt instead of
giving too much authority to govt and then complaining when it gets abused!
I urge communities to look at the success of campus police
that can solve problems of profiling by residents knowing each other.
This becomes a similar issue of defunding public schools and going with private charter.
We can actually have a mix of both, according to what each district enacts
democratically to represent the residents, including hiring their own
teachers, police and doctors, similar to university campus towns.
www.campusplan.org
www.medcoops.info
www.paceuniversal.com
Why not give communities tax breaks at 100% to invest in their own
medical and security programs so more people are equally empowered
to govern themselves: www.ethics-commission.net
www.earnedamnesty.org
www.isocracytx.net/hp-org/hpdmissn.gif
Cities are far different entities than college campuses. Also, if something isn't broke, don't fix it. Just because Floyd apparently had a heart attack doesn't mean the system is broken.
(A) I'm talking about self governing DISTRICTS
(1) City Council Districts (11 in Houston)
(2) County Districts or Precincts
(3) Party Precincts (2500-3000 per party per precinct)
Each of those UNITS can support its own
Medical Cooperative of 1500 members
per chapter getting the same group discount rates as larger groups
(With 10 Cooperative Clinics for 1500 members, 150K members = $5-10 Million
in capital spent on medical services,
so that is enough lobbying leverage for
representing your own interests and negotiations in public policy www.medcoops.info)
Sorry this wasn't clear quarantine
I live in Houston where the City has wasted billions of dollars not representing the Districts, so I have compiled solutions and models that can restructure our Districts and Precincts to be democratically self governed.
(B) NO, the problem isnt a broken system, but failure to teach, respect and enforce the laws we have already under Constitutional laws and ethics www.ethics-commission.net
I can list documented examples of govt abuse due to corporate interests buying out campaigns for office and bypassing checks, balances and limits on govt without equal access to legal defense to stop corporate and party abuses, such as:
(1) City, State, Federal and Nonprofit authorities abusing Taxpayer money to violate Federal HUD and Historic Preservation laws to seize and destroy two National Historic Landmarks of APV public housing and Freedmen's Town (including violating and censoring federal laws, subgrant funding contracts and plans to preserve the historic housing WWII military site as a sustainable community campus under a democratically elected residential council www.campusplan.org established by law under HOPE VI federal housing reform)
(2) City Govt getting sued and losing their lawsuit after passing red light camera laws found to violate Constitutional rights including due process. The City still owes taxpayers for debts, damages, costs and consequences never fully accounted for.
(3) Contested homeless ordinance banning, fining or jailing volunteers or nonprofit and church groups from their outreach to the homeless, in violation of First Amendment rights and freedoms.
(4) The poorly written HERO ordinance that was found in Court to have violated city procedures by denying a lawful petition by citizens who had to sue the City to enforce the process the citizens followed to block the ordinance. (Besides the City abusing and denying the legal process, the contents of the ordinance was also unconstitutional by establishing social beliefs and practices against beliefs of citizens, plus imposing unconstitutional fines and penalties that violated free speech by banning "asking questions" to LGBT persons in restrooms as harassment)
(5) also the "sanctuary" policies in the City of Houston and other Cities in Texas has been challenged as violating equal protections and right of security of citizens.
(6) other unchecked abuses of state and federal funding including post Harvey recovery funds, and now the waste of 17-60 million in funding for pandemic response.
You are hopelessly naive if you think 'local policing' in a gang infested hood is no different than the crime watch programs out here in the Burbs.
Do you think turning some feral predatory animals loose in your chicken coup will keep your chickens safe?