[JustAnotherFan]

I'm glad others here have pointed out that it is in no way universally believed that we need violence workers to respond to mental health situations. Just because society has accepted certain ways of doing something (driven often by the desire to maintain social control) does not mean that those are necessarily the most effective, safest, or even reasonable ways of doing something. I recently read and highly recommend Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis, which highlights the decisions people within the criminal justice system make and how it is so often divorced from anything that is concerned with public safety.

If folks want to better understand why abolitionists have been working so hard to remove police from situations they may want to start with We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba, or for a less radical, more deliberate checking off of the ways we need less policing they can read The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale. 

Thanks to all those who were measured in their response to this incident, and who provided grace to one of our fellow alums.

[JustAnotherFan]

I'm glad others here have pointed out that it is in no way universally believed that we need violence workers to respond to mental health situations. Just because society has accepted certain ways of doing something (driven often by the desire to maintain social control) does not mean that those are necessarily the most effective, safest, or even reasonable ways of doing something. I recently read and highly recommend Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis, which highlights the decisions people within the criminal justice system make and how it is so often divorced from anything that is concerned with public safety.

If folks want to better understand why abolitionists have been working so hard to remove police from situations they may want to start with We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba, or for a less radical, more deliberate checking off of the ways we need less policing they can read The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale. 

Thanks to all those who were measured in their response to this incident, and who provided grace to one of our fellow alums.