{"id":208599,"date":"2020-06-10T05:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T05:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208599"},"modified":"2020-06-13T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T07:52:46","slug":"police-abolition-has-been-tried-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208599","title":{"rendered":"Police Abolition Has Been Tried &#038; Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>henrymakow.com \u2013 June 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h5><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-208602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/defund_police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/defund_police.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/defund_police-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/strong><strong>Abolishing police abolishes the concept of crime, and rebrands it as a health issue:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><em>&#8220;In the Therapeutic State everyone is potentially crazy and therefore could be mind-altered with pharmacological treatment; in the Law-based Society, everyone presumably is aware of the basic elements of law and are responsible for being law-abiding, and crimes are judged and punished as a deterrence factor against the temptation of crime.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>Yoichi Shimatsu:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;With BLM, we are dealing with social insanity, this is no longer politics or legality, but pill-delivered mental straitjackets. Pure subjectivity without objective reality, aka psychosis.\u00a0MK-ULTRA &#8230;. seems to be the present goal of the Deep State and Academia.\u00a0 And the problem is that THEY ARE CRAZY &#8230;. but WE ARE SANE. The lunatics are running the asylum.&#8221;<\/em><\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Yoichi Shimatsu \u2013 <\/strong>(henrymakow.com)<\/h2>\n<h5><strong>The City Council of Mnneapolis&#8217; plan to eliminate <\/strong>the institution of a police force has already been tried and failed terribly.<\/h5>\n<h5>Here is the summary of the proposal for non-forceful response versus police intervention as laid out by councilman Steve Fletcher:<\/h5>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/upload_images\/fletcher.jpg\" alt=\"fletcher.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"268\" \/> &#8220;We had already pushed for pilot programs to dispatch county mental health professionals to mental health calls, and fire department EMTs to opioid overdose calls, without police officers. We have similarly experimented with unarmed, community-oriented street teams on weekend nights downtown to focus on de-escalation. We could similarly turn traffic enforcement over to cameras and, potentially, our parking enforcement staff, rather than our police department.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>The response to criminal acts with emergency medical teams under mental health professionals was tested experimentally at 200 hospitals, sanatoriums and prison across the USA and Canada under MK-ULTRA.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>The Therapeutic State experiment failed to &#8220;cure&#8221; criminal impulses and violence, but in fact increased the scope of psychologically motivated crimes, many de-linked from economic factors, with the innumerable incidences of mass murders with no apparent purpose other than a perception in the assailant&#8217;s mind.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/2020\/06\/police-abolition-has-been-tried.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from &#8216;freeing&#8217; society, closing down police departments would actually open the way for a more authoritarian, centralised form of control   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208606,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208599\/revisions\/208606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}