Defund the Police

Most municipalities spend most of their money on their police departments. Most arrests are for drug related charges, only five percent of police responses are necessary for violent crimes. The police, as weapon wielding would be warriors colonizing our cities and towns are consuming the lions share of our resources and in turn providing us with fear an intimidation in order to enforce ‘law and order’, to strip civilians of their humanity and to deprive people of color from safe environments.
Many people are underserved, particularly the mentally ill or chemically addicted (which is a manifestation of mental illness) or over served, such as communities of color or the homeless. There have been studies done in many countries showing that homelessness is best addressed by giving people homes to live in and social support. There is an entire country (Portugal) which has made a study of decriminalizing drugs and providing counseling and rehabilitation and shown that by so doing the likelihood of serious crimes or negative outcomes from drug use can be significantly curtailed.
There is no reason to continue to live in a society where the truncheon and gun are tools used to enforce the subjection of a people. This is supposed to be a democracy that we live in in these united states. It is not, it has been an oligarchic slave state, especially lately, in my own lifetime. 
The documentary 13th makes the point very clearly that since the end of the civil war and the emancipation of slavery, the state and those who profit from their ability to coordinate and control state actions have migrated slavery into servitude by ‘criminals’ and continues and has significantly escalated since the end of the Jim Crow era a culture of imprisoning people into a new form of slavery.
There is fear, fear that equality of justice and opportunity would deprive the wealthy of their place in the sun. There is fear of the loss of power. Those who control the resources, who make the decisions or dictate the norms of society with their intrenched greed have made us all a mockery of humanity. 
There is abundance in this world without greediness. In order to realize and share this abundance, the way we allocate our resources: material, monetary, mental and manipulative must be redressed.
The good and services, material and manipulative ( work done with the hands ) can and ideally should be geared in a way that meet the needs of those whose needs are greatest. Monetarily, we should choose to allocate our collective funds (pooled as they are in taxes of various forms) towards promoting the welfare physical mental and spiritual of our fellow humans. We should set our minds and hearts (as these two are intricately linked and interwoven) towards seeking true justice and reconciliation between all those who have been aggrieved or are marginalized in this culture.
There is no reason that people exercising their constitutional rights to assembly and speech should be met with the weapons of war criminals. Those meant to protect and serve should do just that. 
We should defund the police, reallocate the fund that are given to them to social services and sectors of action in local communities that lift people up and promote their health and wellbeing and meet their needs. Instead of holding them down under the oppressive sense of punishment for acting awry when they cannot conform to a cold calculating machine of profit that lacks all humanity and empathy.
Police lack empathy. They want you to be afraid of them, they want to scare or beat or kill you into conformity with the culture of violence and fear into which they have been indoctrinated.
Their culture must die. All police forces should be disbanded, their culture of intergenerational bullying and ‘blue silence’ the wall behind which they keep their secrets and sins and hatefulness growing in its own petri dish must be cleansed. There is no reason any person should carry a weapon that doesn’t have man unarmed counselor and reporting member of the community riding along with them. A camera that can be turned off, a system of surveillance that is designed by and for white men to identify themselves and dehumanizes people of color is wrong.
Defund the police, end the old regime of policing, let communities have access to the resources that are being wasted on these punks. They are not soldiers, they should not be soldiers, they do not need the weapons of soldiers, we do not need or want occupied streets designed to herd us into the factories of oppression.
The time for a new way of being in our cities and towns is past due. This is the moment. It is time for true justice, no longer ‘law and order’ enforcing the laws of the racists greedy oligarchs, but ‘liberty and freedom for all’!