Question Response
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Many activists agree that there are serious problems with policing in the United States and that change is necessary to make our criminal justice system more just. However, there is disagreement on what those changes should look like. Two broad campaigns are the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign (Links to an external site.) by an organization called “Campaign Zero,” and the “8 to Abolition” campaign (Links to an external site.) by a coalition of abolitionists.
The “8 Can’t Wait” campaign is aimed at reducing policing violence by enacting a range of stricter use of force policies. The “8 to Abolition” campaign is aimed at reducing the scope and power of policing by enacting measures that take funding and resources away from police forces and reinvest them in community programs.
Read through the eight points of both campaigns using the links above. In your post, compare the demands of the two campaigns. Discuss some of the similarities and differences between the goals of the campaigns and the reforms/changes they propose to reach those goals. Then answer the following question: What kinds of changes do you think are necessary to make policing and our wider criminal justice system more just? They can be from the two campaigns or not. Draw on at least one of the week’s readings to support your position.
