Reclaim Philadelphia and West Philly’s Rick Krajewski on Running for Office, Defunding the PPD and the National Leftist Uprising
“This doesn’t change my vision in that I am fundamentally an abolitionist: I envision a model of safety and accountability that isn’t upheld through prisons, mass policing, and mass incarceration. Defunding the police is about divesting from police and their militarized violence by investing in the root causes of violence — like systemic poverty — and putting resources into them. So if anything, this moment has just expedited our ability to win some of these demands. It has made it more politically possible to defund the police and fund communities right now, vs. thinking that it’s a multi-year agenda. - Rick Krajewski”