Spencer Dinwiddie hasn't seen the NBA hardwood in nearly three months, but that has not kept the Brooklyn Nets point guard from thinking of a way to help his community.
Besides the recent initiatives to help Brooklyn victims of the coronavirus pandemic, Dinwiddie has also thought of ways to reduce police brutality by hitting cops where it hurts the most — their pocket.
This may be the Crypto in me speaking but you know technically we fund the police.
If we collectively took a one year strike on taxes… or even escrowed the tax money… 🤔
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) June 5, 2020
Dinwiddie prompted a potential one-year strike on taxes or escrowing tax money that would fund local and state police departments. He even took some time to discuss it with his followers:
The premise of either escrow or cut off was in 2020 how is their not a system where we can see exactly where our dollars go and choose as individuals where they go. If I have to pay $1M in federal and/or state taxes and want to send it all to Covid relief then I should be able to
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) June 5, 2020
That last paragraph is my exact point 💡
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) June 5, 2020
While neither a strike nor an escrow are easy propositions to pull off, all Dinwiddie asked for is an open mind to keep police accountable.
Not in government’s hands. Could always use blockchain to place the funds in a smart contract.
Every year police brutality has to be under X% or the money is released back to the ppl. There’s a lot of creative ways to approach it. Just have to have an open mind
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) June 5, 2020
There have been other ideas floated out there like using the police retirement funds to pay for police brutality settlements, but even the greatest of ideas have some sort of hole to them.
While it's true that civilians pay for the police as an entity, there is a large roadblock to overcome that safeguard, the same that disburses to businesses, parks, and construction of roads, bridges, and neighborhoods.
Police brutality has been thoroughly permeated through the system from its early days and now expanded as a plague that we know as racism.
The disease in the air is police brutality, but to fully expunge the plague; racism, a collective effort of understanding and active listening is the first step to making things right for African Americans, who have suffered at the hands of police long enough.
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