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Iowa City Council member discusses abolishing police

Iowa City Council member discusses abolishing police
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Iowa City Council member discusses abolishing police
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - “The abolishment of police would mean that there were no more police,” said Laura Bergus. “I think it was pretty clear. I imagine a long slow process where the community builds alternatives to what our current policing is.”
A city without an armed police force. That was what Council Member Laura Bergus said the city should be working toward, and that included responding to violent incidents.
“Policing that uses lethal force to answer every possible kind of call is premised on punishment,” she said. “It’s premised on violence, and I don’t think, personally, that’s how we protect the members of our community.” ....

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Council member wants to discuss abolishing Iowa City Police Department

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Council member wants to discuss abolishing Iowa City Police Department
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Iowa City leaders will meet today at 3 p.m. to consider restructuring the city’s police department and one council member is calling for a serious discussion about abolishing the police department.
In an opinion piece published in The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Councilmember Laura Bergus wrote that policing relies on a system of force and violence, which she says cannot be undone.
“I just want to start the conversation, as I said in the piece, about imagining a future where public safety isn’t provided by armed police,” Bergus says. “I believe that modern policing isn’t a sustainable model.” ....

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