On the way to abolition, we can take a number of intermediate steps to shrink the police force and to restructure our relationships with each other. These include: 1)Organizing for dramatic decreases of police budgets and redirecting those funds to other social goods (defunding the police). 2)Ending cash bail. 3)Overturning police bills of rights. 4)Abolishing police unions. 5)Crowding out the police in our communities. 6)Disarming the police. 7)Creating abolitionist messages that penetrate the public consciousness to disrupt the idea that cops = safety. 8)Building community-based
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