CULTURE WAR TOPIC

• TAKE THIS POLL ON POLL FOR ALL USING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

• VOTE IN MORE POLLS FROM CULTUREWARTRUCE.COM TO BUILD THE PURPLE AGENDA

• CALL FOR A TRUCE BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT, ENACT THE PURPLE AGENDA

THE PURPLE PLATFORM ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE IS CENTERED AROUND THE IDEA THAT BROAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND CULTURE SHIFTING EDUCATIONAL REFORMS ARE THE SOLUTION TO FIXING THE BAD CULTURE THAT MOTIVATES OUTLAWED BEHAVIOR, THREATENING MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY

GENERATIONAL POVERTY AND POOR EDUCATION COMBINE TO CREATE BAD CULTURE, WHICH SPREADS ACROSS GENERATIONS BREEDING IGNORANCE, POVERTY AND CRIME

MAJOR POLLING

Gallup: Americans Call for Detailed Police Reforms

• 94% of U.S. adults favor changes to policing, with 58% saying major changes needed and 36% favoring minor changes

• 98% support changing management practices so officers with multiple abuse incidents are held accountable or removed

• 81% of Black Americans and 80% of Hispanic Americans want police to spend the same amount or more time in their local neighborhoods, prioritizing effective public safety alongside police reform

NAMI / Ipsos National Survey

• 80% (4 in 5) of Americans believe mental health professionals—rather than law enforcement officers—should be the primary first responders during a mental health or suicide crisis

• 86% agree that creating non-police 988 emergency crisis services reduces unnecessary arrests, incarcerations, and emergency room overcrowding

Cato Institute: National Survey

• 79% state that officers should be held accountable if they violate someone's constitutional rights, even if the officer claimed ignorance of the law at the time

• 89% of americans want to require law enforcement to wear body cams

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE LAWS GOVERNING THEM SHOULD BE FUNDAMENTALLY REORIENTED AWAY FROM THE EXISTING DETERRENT FOCUSED, PUNITIVE SYSTEM TOWARDS AN EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION FOCUSED ONE. WHILE BEING AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR LAW AND ORDER ITS FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS CENTER AROUND UNEQUAL JUSTICE BASED ON RACE AND CLASS

MANY ASPECTS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM LEAVE OBSERVERS AND PARTICIPANTS FEELING LIKE JUSTICE IS NEVER SERVED AND THE SYSTEM FAILED THEM. CURRENT LAWS FAIL TO PROSECUTE CERTAIN CLASSES OF CRIMINALS WHILE OVER-PROSECUTING OTHERS. OUR LAWS AND POLICIES SHOULD BE RE-IMAGINED, RECOGNIZING THE TRIUMPHS AND FAILURES OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM AND TRANSFORMING IT INTO SOMETHING BETTER

THE ZEITGEIST ON POLICING IN AMERICA IS POISONED BY THE COLLECTIVE INJUSTICES EXPERIENCED AT THE HANDS OF “BAD COPS”. ALSO “GOOD COPS” BELIEVING IT’S THEIR DUTY IS TO PUNISH ANYONE INTERACTING WITH THE SYSTEM, AS A CRIME DETERRENT IN ITSELF. THE DISPARITIES ALONG RACE AND CLASS PLAY OUT ACROSS MANY FUNCTIONS OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, MOST NOTABLY THE KILLINGS WHICH LAUNCHED BLM PROTESTS. JUST AS RIOTING AND LOOTING OCCURRED AT A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BLM PROTESTS A FEW BAD APPLES BRANDED THE WHOLE MOVEMENT. IT IS ALSO A FEW BAD COPS ACROSS THE NATION ABUSING THEIR AUTHORITY ON A DAILY BASIS FIGHTING THE CULTURE WAR THAT UNDERMINE THE HONORABLE, HEROIC WORK GOOD COPS DO EVERYDAY

REFORMS OF THE GREATER CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ARE NEEDED:

• END THE WAR ON DRUGS (ADDRESS AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, INTOXICATION LICENSING)

• PRISON LABOR FOR CORPORATIONS (10 CENTS/HOUR)

• END PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, POPULATION CONTROL VIA PRISON PIPELINES

• END PRISON CULTURE PROLIFERATION

• END PRISONER RAPE, TORTURE AND ABUSE

• PROVIDE VIABLE WORK OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPOVERISHED POPULATIONS

MEDIA

• REQUIRE PARTISAN NEWS NETWORKS TO AIR SHOWS FROM BOTH SIDES TO COMBAT FACT MANIPULATION AND DISHONEST NARRATIVE SHAPING

• EXPLAIN HOW CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS THE MOST CENTRAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL COMPONENT OF SOCIETY THAT MUST EVOLVE

• IDENTIFY THE OPPONENTS OF POPULAR DEMOCRATIC POLICING REFORMS, COMBAT MISINFORMATION ABOUT REFORM EFFORTS

• OFFICERS DISPENSING EQUAL AND UNBIASED JUSTICE

• PROVIDE CONTEXT AND HISTORY ON IDEAS OF WHITE SUPREMACY PROLIFERATING AMONG LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY

• IDENTIFY ITS IDEOLOGY, PLACES AND POLICIES INCLUDING MASS INCARCERATION, PRISON PIPELINES AND SLAVE LABOR AND HOW THEY EVOLVE

GOVERNMENT

• NATIONAL USE OF FORCE POLICY

• FUND ADDITIONAL TYPES OF FIRST RESPONDERS (MENTAL HEALTH, MEDIATORS, COUNSELORS, YOUTH CRIME DETERRENT PROGRAMS)

• CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARDS

• COMBAT IDEOLOGY THAT EXTRA-JUDICIAL PUNISHMENTS SHOULD BE APPLIED BY COPS AT THEIR DISCRETION AND WITHOUT OVERSIGHT

• PASS GEORGE FLOYD JUSTICE IN POLICING ACT - 2020/2021

  • HOUSE PASSED, SENATE STALLED

  • COMPREHENSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM

  • ENDS QUALIFIED IMMUNITY

  • BANS NO-KNOCK WARRANTS

  • PROSECUTES MISCONDUCT

• PASS JUSTICE ACT - 2020

  • HOUSE IGNORE, SENATE PROPOSED

  • REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE

  • INCENTIVE BASED REFORM

  • GRANTS FOR CHOKE HOLD & BODY CAMS

INDIVIDUAL

• ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE, UNDERSTAND THE CORE ISSUES AND RECOGNIZE THE PROTESTS

• SUPPORT POLICIES THAT LEAD TO FAIR, EQUAL APPLICATION THE LAW AND EQUAL JUSTICE

• ELECT POLITICIANS THAT WILL ENACT THE PURPLE AGENDA, INCLUDING NATIONAL USE OF FORCE POLICY, INCREASED PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN JUSTICE SYSTEM AND POLICING REFORMS

• CHANGE THE ZEITGEIST IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO HAVE RESPECT FOR THE DANGEROUS JOBS POLICE DO AND APPRECIATION FOR THEM GETTING IT RIGHT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE TIME

• EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THE HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF RACE AND CLASS IN THE CULTURE WAR, RECOGNIZE THE GOAL OF EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW BETWEEN CLASSES BENEFIT’S EVERYONE

• RECOGNIZE THE FARTHER BACK IN TIME YOU GO (CIVIL RIGHTS, SEGREGATION, JIM CROW, SLAVERY) THE MORE RACE AND CLASS AFFECTED THE JUSTICE AND ECONOMICS YOU EXPERIENCED

• THE STRUGGLE TO MAKE AMERICA “A MORE PERFECT UNION” HAS BEEN HAPPENING, WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE AT DIFFERENT RATES OVER TIME. SOME PLACES ARE DOING BETTER THAN OTHERS

RACISM IN POLICING

Minorities are not treated differently, the only disparities in criminal justice are around wealth. The "Zero Disparity" Myth argues that race plays virtually no role in modern American criminal sentencing or police use of force

The BLM movement calls for the complete abolition of law enforcement and defunding of the police altogether

The vast majority of supporters and affiliates want structural reform, accountability, community-led crime prevention and crisis responders, rather than the complete elimination of police