The Black Panther Party was able to defend their community until the criminal, terrorist American police went and murdered them all. While the masses might not need a new Panther group exactly, what organizations can be founded that would be able to fulfill the capacity of providing social support and resources to the masses? Whether it is a labor union, a political party, I don’t care if it’s a knitting club that patrols the streets as long as it gives us someone else to call besides the pigs.
And how large does it need to be before it is viable to defend people from the pigs?
I don’t see anyone talking about these guys online much.
Urban Alchemy themselves:
https://urban-alchemy.us/
The Nation Article:
https://archive.ph/JhcrX
Their funding still comes from the cities that they work in. They meet the liberals’ desire to not see homeless people, give people from out of prison opportunities to get stable work. This is a liberal solution for employing the lumpenproletariet, but of course certain kinds of misbehavior are to be expected when you try to employ convicts with only 3 days of video training. A certain portion of them will engage in misbehavior, and held about as accountable as the police without a review board. Strangely, Breed has still increased funding for the police in spite of everything.
I suspect that if Breed funded CART instead and had a community review board to deal with mental illness properly.
from the nation article:
"What the Coalition on Homelessness and its partners came up with was the Compassionate Alternative Response Team, or CART, which would respond to complaints involving unhoused people and could transport individuals to services using community-based teams of mental health professionals and people who have experienced homelessness, all without involving the cops. The funding was supposed to come from the budget of the San Francisco Police Department, a diversion that would have aligned with Mayor London Breed’s unfulfilled post–George Floyd promise to reallocate $120 million from the SFPD’s budget. But Kyser and others who pushed for CART say that Breed let the $2.75 million needed for the program sit unspent for over a year and even “refused to acknowledge CART publicly.” Then, on January 31, the city awarded the contract to implement CART to Urban Alchemy and not the coalition of nonprofits that helped develop the program. Wilson, of Hospitality House, was livid: “It’s incredibly frustrating to land here after several years of planning” meant to “lift up a different model of what public safety could mean in communities that are often under siege and frankly enslaved by this law enforcement model.” Upon hearing the news, Laura Valdéz, the executive director of the nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services and part of the coalition that did not win the contract, told the San Francisco Chronicle that UA had a “history of triggering and inflicting trauma on unhoused people.” Urban Alchemy believes it was chosen to take on the challenge of CART because of its experience running a similar program, Crisis and Incident Response Team Through Community-Led Engagement, or CIRCLE, in Los Angeles, which launched in 2021. "
TL/DR Urban Alchemy is an alternative police force that hires convicts as conceived of by liberals.
It’s hard to talk about online because it has potential to be in the right direction on the surface, but digging deeper, it seems to repeat some of the issues with police.