Americans Explain Why They Oppose Abolishing The Police

“If I get mugged, I need to call someone who can show up afterward and tell me it was a damn shame.”

“Even if we got rid of the police, we’d still have to replace them with some other unaccountable domestic paramilitary outfit.”

“Instead of abolishing, let’s focus on sending police unlimited funds for training that will absolutely never take place.”

“I’m white.”

It’s a slippery slope to everyone surviving routine traffic stops.

“Who else was going to hire my idiot son?”

“What are we supposed to give all of their budget to? Education? Mental health services? Community outreach? Healthcare? Childcare? Housing? Rent relief? Food assistance? Infrastructure?”

“Police officers are the only ones brave enough to put their lives on the line to protect us every day they feel like it.”

“If cops weren’t regularly sending kids to jail for low-level marijuana charges, I’d have to deal with like 20 more students.”

“My husband’s a cop, and I prefer that he take all his rage out on other people.”

“They pass along so many clients our way, it just wouldn’t make good business sense to oppose them.”

“And, what, send even more money to social services?”

“If a bad guy harms me, I want someone to apprehend either them or someone else who vaguely looks like them.”

“Videos of police brutality get a lot of engagement online.”

“Because it’ll make the five hours I’ve already been waiting for them to show up a complete waste of time.”

“It’s a slippery slope. Once we abolish the police, we’ll start abolishing things like police shootings, police gangs, and police corruption.”

“I like how the sirens go ‘woo, woo, woo.’”

“Suicide by social worker is gonna be a lot harder than suicide by cop.”

“If we abolish the police, only criminals will have police.”

“Then who will villains easily beat up before fighting the movie’s superhero?”

“I hope to become one someday.”

“And what? Delete my entire ‘Back The Blue’ Pinterest board just like that?”

“I don’t think anything should be abolished. Policing, slavery, you name it.”