[Peace-discuss] Why isn't CHOP's massive failure being seen as a clear pointer to liberal policy failure and protest inarticulateness?

[J.B. Nicholson]

I'm purposefully pointing to establishment media source CNN here -- 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/chop-seattle-police-protesters-public-safety/ -- to 
make a point about the Seattle zone where police were unwelcomed and (allegedly) did 
not go; an area presumably set up by those who champion the "defund the police" line 
and who apparently never got around to identifying what the police do and how each of 
these tasks should be done instead.

 From what I can tell the CHOP supporters established no clearly-defined (nor 
democratically arrived at) policies covering how people would deal with real-world 
problems for which the police are typically called in; from the relatively mundane 
traffic accident to the obviously important murders (which happened).

After two deaths and reports of other violence (shootings, beatings, and a rape) and 
the lethal experiment known as CHOP is now over. There should be quite a price to pay 
for Seattle's remarkably ignorant and negligent mayor Jenny Durkan both legally and 
in any re-election bid. Her being a Democrat also doesn't help that party's image. 
She's currently facing two separate petitions for recall[1].

[1] 
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/judge-hears-dual-petitions-recall-seattle-mayor/4WVFOQAHHZCIZDR3AO5MBRNYVA/

So far I'm led to believe that what will come out of these protests is little more 
than vacuous sloganeering around "Black Lives Matter" (which merely repeats Glen 
Ford's earlier complaint about BLM) and "Defund The Police". There are lots of other 
choices for things we can do, we don't need the false dichotomy of accepting the 
police status quo or reinstating CHOP. Both lead to unacceptable horrors. But it's 
not good enough to point out that the status quo is horrible, one must identify 
specific actionable plans on what is to be done.

Are protestors pushing for policies the country needs by listing actionable and 
identifiable plans (if not extant bills Congress could pass tomorrow if there were 
the political will to do it) and then insisting on their implementation? I'm thinking 
of policies such as cutting the war budget at least in half and redirecting former 
war budget money to pay for social services and funding federal guarantees to people? 
Americans need Medicare for All (2 bills exist to implement this now), a home for 
every American (not Cabrini Green-style warehousing), a Universal Basic Income, a 
national jobs program, recalling troops, ships, and weapons back home (including 
flatly abandoning occupations), local control over policing (not advisory boards), 
and clawing back the trillions of the "CARES" Act (which got widespread bipartisan 
support including so-called Congressional "progressives" like Ilhan Omar and 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) so that that money can be spent in direct cash payments to 
the public instead of the majority of CARES money going to the wealthiest people and 
businesses.