To those who feel tempted to call for more training in the wake of these killings: please don't. Police don't kill because they're improperly trained, they kill because it's part of their job. Training doesn't take away the power to kill––disarming and defunding do.

https://truthout.org/articles/police-reforms-you-should-always-oppose/

As Mariame Kaba writes^, "Ultimately, the only way that we will address oppressive policing is to abolish the police. Therefore all of the ‘reforms’ that focus on strengthening the police or “morphing' policing into something more invisible but still as deadly should be opposed."

Another helpful framework for thinking about reformist vs. nonreformist reforms to police from Critical Resistance: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/1533398363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf