Which Candidate will do the best job at addressing Racism

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. We need truly fundamental changes in police departments, police academies, and our 'justice' system

as a whole. And we simply don't do 'fundamental' well. Everybody always wants to bandaid what came before, not throw it out wholesale. And indeed, our very notion of 'justice' is a barbaric atavism we've held onto for thousands of years. What do we speak of when we talk about "justice"? Punishment for socially unapproved behaviour. NOT correcting the problems, not preventing them from reoccurring. Oh sure, we've tacked on some minor attempts at 'rehabilitation', which assumes that the individual is the sole creator of the problems. The problem our justice system sees is 'thieves', not people who are so impoverished and so without skill or opportunity that they see no other way to survive than to steal, or who see 'successful' people who lie and cheat and mistreat those below them, so they emulate those people. But lie and cheat and mistreat people 'legally' and there is no punishment, just idolization.

We don't need a 'justice' system. We need a system that detects problems and finds a way to correct them by addressing the root causes as well as the individual acts. A system that can apply 'justice' to the systematic exploitation and oppression of citizens, not just to the citizens themselves.