Black Lives Matter Leader’s Referendum targeting Largest Sheriff Dept Qualifies For Presidential Primary Ballot In 2020 (independence, March)

[jm1982]

This is not good . BLM should not have any say in regulating any sheriff department.

We know the goal of BLM . They don’t want criminals to have to pay for their crime . We don’t need alternatives to incarceration . The alternative is not committing crime then you don’t have to be incarcerated.

This is insanity.
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A voter referendum that would bring sweeping institutional changes to America’s largest sheriff’s department has qualified for the March 2020 ballot in Los Angeles County.

The multi-pronged ballot measure targets the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), which operates seven custody facilities and provides policing services to 42 contract cities. Titled the Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative, the proposal seeks to stop the county from spending billions of dollars on two new LASD correctional centers and create alternatives to incarceration. If passed by voters, the referendum would also give a civilian oversight panel subpoena authority over LASD to investigate matters such as sheriff misconduct.

Cullors, a police and prison abolitionist, has been organizing residents and community-based groups to reform LASD for at least six years. She has often been candid about her desire to “dismantle” law enforcement agencies and was instrumental in the establishment of LASD’s civilian oversight panel in 2016. Her Reform L.A. Jails measure would give that advisory board more independence and clout.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/35808...jeffrey-cawood

[Eumaois]

I am for prison reform, but not from a group like BLM.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by jm1982

This is not good . BLM should not have any say in regulating any sheriff department.

And they don't. What they're doing is putting up a referendum. Are you saying that even if a majority of voters agree with them, the referendum should be invalidated?