Celebs Call To Abolish The Police While Hiding Behind Private Security

1. Museums, arts foundations, theaters, studios, events venues, festivals, universities, libraries, book stores, publishing houses, schools, and social media companies must break contracts with police departments and reconceive what it means to keep art, audiences, and patrons safe.
2. The narrative against police that tells us crime is a direct result of social inequity, and that should social inequity be destroyed crime would not exist, is driving this conversation that our nation does not need police.
3. A group of some of the most notable black artists in America have penned a letter to studios and Hollywood executives demanding the entertainment industry divest from police.
4. Theoretically, money would be diverted from police departments to community-based programs, where people would decide for their communities what they need.
5. Instead of police responding to violent crime, members of the community would respond in whatever way their neighborhood group saw fit.
6. The Black Lives Matter movement seeks to counter the systemic racism they believe is foundational in American culture with a systemic solution: defunding the police.
7. If cultural institutions stopped working with the police, they would hire private security companies to do the work instead.

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