[OPINION] Really defunding and abolishing the police

'What kind of reforms do we need to address the violence of policing?'

” or “abolitionist steps” that interrupts the social reproduction of policing and radically decreases its scale.for asking if an instance of police reform entrenches the police or if it is a step towards abolishing the police.

Ultimately, policing did not always exist in the Philippines; it came with colonialism. That there was a time before the police existed is proof that there could be a time that the police would no longer exist. Perhaps true decolonization also means abolishing the police. Indeed, many Indigenous communities in our country have longstanding cultural traditions of dealing and managing harm.

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