5 year plan to abolish police in Philly....

Can't wait to see NY and Philadelphia turn to shite in the not too distant future.

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"As we address these particular concerns, and at the same time build restorative justice practices, and build out our mental health response teams, and build medic responses,"

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Why can't we do this AND have police?

Killadelphia will be even more of a war zone than it already is.

Chaz didn't last 3 weeks without a police presence.

Maybe the "City of Brotherly Love" will fair better.

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Excellent use of a comma to the top.

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Isn't it called "a comma in the sky"?

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Instead of being in the "news" section, this should be under "something a dumbass thinks, and other nonsense

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That's what news is in 2020.

The mafia approves particularly the members of the Bruno family and their heirs and or assigns.

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The Philadelphia arm of the Black Lives Matter movement has called for the "complete abolition" of the police department in five years as well as the scrapping of military bases abroad.

And according to BLM Philadelphia representative and activist YahNé Ndgo, the chapter has developed a five-year plan to do just that.

"One of the things that we are demanding over five years is the complete abolition. We don't want to see any police in our community," Ndgo told Fox News in an interview Tuesday. "Over the course of those five years, it gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed. We aren't looking to leave any kind of vacancy around the issue of safety."

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OK, let's see how she plans to do this.

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From her purview, one of the main factors leading to crime is poverty and hunger – which in turn drives drug use and drug-related crimes.

Ndgo said helping drug addicts would address many societal ills.

"As we address these particular concerns, and at the same time build restorative justice practices, and build out our mental health response teams, and build medic responses," she said, "[These are] responses that really actually deal with the issues that are in place. Then we will have less crime anyway."

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OK, got it. We are going to "help" drug addicts. We should have realized that before and started doing that already.

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Ndgo said the community should deal with the issues from "the ground up," using the money that would have otherwise been poured into the city's police department.

"There are plenty of people who have been murdered as a result of mental health checks. The police came, and then they murdered the person, even though the person was acting erratically, which is what you would expect of a person who's having a mental health crisis," Ndgo said. "Domestic confrontations are also things that police are often called for. And these are kinds of situations that can be handled by different kinds of professionals. As it relates to more violent crime, there would still be trained individuals who are prepared to handle those kinds of situations."

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Social workers to the rescue!!!

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In contending that the history of the police is "centered around the ruling class and protection of the ruling class and being an extension of the system of oppression," Ngdo claims that police have done little to make communities safer.

"Quite often, if there is violence happening, by the time the police arrive, that has already occurred and particularly in poor neighborhoods and in black and brown communities. So the police are not really a resource for preventing that kind of crime from happening. Just a response," she explained.

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So, in my opinion, there are MILLIONS of crimes NOT committed every single day because of that "response". Let there be no police and see how many of those millions start happening.

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Moreover, the Philadelphia-based activist believes that violence exists on many levels, not just stemming from law enforcement.

"We also recognize that hunger, unnecessary hunger, is a form of unnecessary homelessness (especially) when you have massive numbers of properties that are empty, and then we have people who are all over the city. We see that also as violence," Ndgo said. "Another example is the fact that a lot of our schools are not safe for our children. There is lead pipes in a lot of the schools. So students are being expected to learn in environmentally hazardous places, those are things that we see as violence."

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This woman is a miracle worker. She is going to single handedly solve the hunger, homelessness, and the ever popular and violent lead pipe problem.

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BLM Philadelphia also wants to see changes on a federal level. Ngdo said that the president has the authority to call in the National Guard irrespective of whether the governors or mayors approve it, a power they view as perpetrating "danger and harm."

"You see now, the president can have any kind of mindset. And then (they) have a local military force at his or her disposal in order to push that mindset onto communities," Ngdo cautioned. "That would be one thing really important, to transform that policy."

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Yes, because we can all see what a fine job the big city Dem governors are doing right now. It's working out great.

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She said another critical change would be for the "federal government to actually prioritize the financial discrepancies and inequities in all of our communities."

"The wealth of the nation is very much into the hands of a very small group of people," Ngdo said. "And the result of that is a massive amount of poverty and poverty, as often, as I mentioned earlier, is a big reason that a lot of crime happens."

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So, socialism will fix it all.

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She pointed out that "there are over 800 U.S. military bases around the world," in addition to the Pentagon's AFRICOM program, "which puts military bases in almost every country on the African continent."

According to Pentagon maps published by The Intercept in February, there appear to be U.S. bases on 29 of the 54 countries that make up Africa. Those bases, she said, should be defunded.

"(Defunding) these particular programs would provide massive amounts of resources for the communities in the United States, and that would mitigate most of the problems that create the so-called problem of crime," Ngdo said.

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I had read this whole article before you posted it. I thought it was satire, but realized I was on Fox News. Sad really.

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How does her unqualified opinion make front page news?

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It made Fox News because Fox knows it will stir up their viewers.