I am a person of color who supports the fight against racial injustice but don’t necessarily agree with all the policies The BLM Organization is wanting to implement.
BLM is asking to defund the police because the weaker you make the police system the more you will realize how obsolete and unnecessary it is and how little purpose they serve. Yet in the US most of the taxes go on Military, Police etc... a
If you want to understand a little bit more about why (some) people feel the police system should be abolished and not just defunded it is because it is simply because it literally causes more deaths and abuse in the US than it seems to save.
In 2019 police killed 1099 people,
In most criminal cases, police intervene AFTER a crime is committed, VERY rarely do they actually stop any crime from happening and when they do VERY rarely is it a murder or assault, it’s often DUI, drug possession, bar fights or prostitution, not nothing of value but they are very rarely actively saving lives yet again, they do cause the death of over 1000 people yearly, plenty of them unarmed. They also participate in the incarceration of thousands of black (and non-black) lives for life, in the US there is a 3 strikes law in many places where 3 crimes (it could be one violent crime and 2 more petty ones) means life in jail without parole, those aren’t for murder charges but things like aggravated robbery or aggravated assault. Which means that plenty of black young men have been condemned for life in jail WITHOUT parole for things that while not great, definitely don’t amount to murder (and in the US murderers can plea and have a reduced sentence therefore they are actually condemned at higher stakes than murderers). Not saying that they shouldn’t arrest them but the US judicial system is completely screwed and need a complete overhaul there are kids RIGHT NOW purging life sentences for stuff they committed at the age of 12/13, some not for murder google Kenneth young (a 15yo forced by his stepdad to commit a robbery, he actually stopped a woman from being raped, yet he was condemn to life in prison). The current police and judicial system NEED to be abolished, so we can create better, safer and less prejudiced systems (maybe similar idk but definitely NOT the current ones) Police officers are less trained than a hairdresser yet they carry a weapon, are trained to kill and are allowed to cause the death of over a 1000 people yearly? YES the current police system need, not only to be defunded but abolished and replaced.
Here is a former police officer who is also for the end of the police as we know It and why: medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
I can’t speak for the UK Justice system but in the US we do have a system, there simply is no Justice in it. You can’t have a “justice system” that isn’t actually fair or unbiased.