Shortly after last week’s Bloomington city council Meeting, Ward 6 Alderwoman Jenn Carrillo said she wanted to explain about the “#abolish police” statement she put out earlier.
Carrillo said, in her mind, “it doesn’t seem as radical of a proposal that our police would play a role in building a world that police are no longer necessary.”
According to Carrillo, “A lot of this national movement is calling on us to instead of increasing our funding toward our police departments every year to actually begin to decrease that. I think that’s a point for us all to really think critically about the justice system as it exists today and whether we believe it’s a system that is inherently good and can be reformed or whether it is a system that’s built on bad principle and needs to completely and radically be re-imagined. I consider myself in the latter of the those camps.”
Carrillo added that by investing that money to provide residents with a better quality of life “we, like so many other industrialized nations, will see a drop in crime and less and less need for police,” said Carrillo. “So that’s not a dig on police.”
