The media is only following the moment. Nobody is really thinking.
How are you going to reform the police without reforming prisons?
Although I am unfamiliar with and skeptical of the idea as it applies to prisons, I even checked "abolition," and although there are articles from the past few days, it's not as if the media is taking up the issue of what to do about the U.S. prison system, even though:
Criminal justice reform is not just about stopping police officers from murdering people, which would at least be an interesting start.
Real reform is not part of the plan, is it? It really isn't; all the noise is some kind of subterfuge.
Not only is it not part of the plan to make prisons humane and genuinely rehabilitative, it's also not part of the plan to fund and develop transitional programs, housing and other after-prison support without which recidivism is almost inevitable, is it?
It is not part of the plan to prevent current or additional generations from living their lives in terrified, wistful, angry, perpetually incredulous, tax-paying adjacency, is it?
