America is certainly in a state of emergency, but not one that calls for militarized policing.
This particular day, the principal called me into the office, explained my crime, ignored my pleas of innocence, and left me isolated in a room. Lunch time came, and an office worker delivered a tray of unappealing food to my makeshift jail cell. I picked over it as a police officerHe never sat down. He stood tall when he asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up.
I spent what I think was the next two weeks, though it felt like a year, eating lunch alone in the office as punishment. The goal was to make me, and it happens to Black children at an alarming rate. That interaction, however, should have never happened. Across America on any given day, there are too many police interactions occurring that shouldn’t involve law enforcement at all. School discipline, disputes between neighbors, andinvolving homeless people and mental health crises often end up with some level of police involvement.
Mayor London Breed said that in San Francisco, this will no longer be the norm. In the next few months, Breed will roll out her plan to limit these police confrontations, address police bias, demilitarize the police, and promote economic justice. Breed’s proposal also plans to redirect money to programs that serve the communities that have been “systematically harmed by past City policies,”
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