To those who feel tempted to call for more training in the wake of these killings: please don& #39;t. Police don& #39;t kill because they& #39;re improperly trained, they kill because it& #39;s part of their job. Training doesn& #39;t take away the power to kill––disarming and defunding do.

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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& #39; 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">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59...