Community Sense (How to have a United Revolution without Blood or Protest)

Community Sense

(How to have A United Revolution without Blood or Protest)

Foreword
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. (or someone like him.)

Detailing: the historical significance of this re-founding moment briefly touching (with the bad and the good) on Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, FDR, The Civil Rights movement, and why in this internet age, the re-founding moment will simply come directly from the people. One or two pages please.

Introduction: Declaration of a New American Society
by: Neil Degrasse Tyson and Geoffrey Canada. Or people like them. But hopefully them.

Detailing in one page: how the simple steps in this book will not only create a more Just and Equal United States, but an even greater Leader in the world Scientifically, Environmentally Economically, and Politically than during the Cold War, than after World War II, than ever.

Signed by: Politicians, educators, Big thinkers and innovative Billionaires like Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin...i.e. the founding fathers of our time.

Part I The Problems

Chapter One: Economy and Environment and Healthcare
Five pages including graphs and stats and Data. Written by whoever. Should be as easy to read as a comic book. Should include stuff on drug addiction, food deserts, obesity, affects on economy, unemployment etc.
 Poverty and Hunger.

Chapter Two: Crime and Punishment
Imprisonment, killings by police officers, crimes and homicides, racial inequality.
How much this costs tax payers and society. Graphs data, research.

Chapter Three: Brain Drain
Where we are in the scientific community compared to other nations and compared to where we could be. Our education system. How Science has meant success and economic growth for the U.S. in the past. Our status as a world leader.

Chapter Four: Over spending
How we need to get the country back on track financially. Stats, Graphs. Written by someone in the Tea Party camp. Problems with Social Security, Health Care spending, Police spending, military spending. etc.

Part II A look at the competition

Chapter One: Things other countries do better than us.
Community Policing in Japan. Cool Infrastructure China has. Education in Finland. Studies stats graphs.

Chapter Two: Stuff done in the U.S. now that we should use as examples for a solution.
Google, Ron Finley, Solar Powered Highways.

Chapter Three: Examples from the past that worked
FDR's CCC, Victory Gardens, Why we can find a way. How we can change our society. They thought Abolition was impossible. They thought a black President was impossible. They didn't foresee the Internet being used the way it has been. etc.

Chapter Four: The power and zeal of youth
Show how Young people as young as middle school can be organized and powerful from present and historical examples. Good and Bad. I.e. studies on young gang members and selling of drugs. Red Guards, Hitler Youth. All examples where youth did a lot of damage to society. But clearly show potential o do good through zeal and organization.

Examples where youth did good in society through leadership and thinking outside the box.

Part III: A Solution

Chapter one: A Federal Community Police/ Education Bureau
Brief description of what this is. Community Policing based on Japanese system. Payment and function. Unarmed officers in the community who also work as outdoor teachers. Also oversee community gardens. Required classes in Math, programming and science part of compensation for officers, that can carry over as college and high school credit. Officers will also lead classes and groups in the stuff they learn. Kung Fu, Yoga, fitness classes. Officers inspired to think and create events and solutions for their community. Required to talk directly with community door to door, to ask what they want done, and also to foresee what the community would want but does not yet think it wants.

Note: this would not replace local Law Enforcement. But it will Consolidate and cut the budgets of Federal Organizations. Which ones? seriously which ones. Also, save money by demilitarizing local police.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." these community police will be the soft voice. The big stick will be a combination of demilitarized local police, and then in situation where force is needed, use our actual Military. Some people will hate this idea but it will save money and veterans  of color view actual military much differently than militarized police. A careful balance is needed to win hearts and minds of our own citizens.


Chapter two: Who are the officers and Why?
Young people. As young as middle school and up through Grad school age.
Also, Elderly retirees, to connect the generations, and also this compensation will be part of Social Security payment. I.e. Social security will mean compensation for service. Such service will also benefit the elderly person taking part, socially, emotionally, and health wise.

Chapter Three: Who will pay for this?
Get the money from other parts of government spending and simultaneously cut spending drastically. War on drugs? Gone. This will also overlap with welfare spending, policing, and a whole host of other areas where the government wastes money. Back lash from Police Unions? unavoidable. But the smartest brightest of them will be absorbed into this new structure.

Partner with Forward thinking Companies to have them alleviate some of the cost. But they must also get something out of it. Company partnerships should be able to be changed quickly. Some people will hate this and say it is conspiracy. But is it worse than the current system? The idea has potential.

Chapter Four: How will this lead to a better society
Less hunger, more fit people. Unarmed community police acting as smart creative initiators recruiting from inside the community to get followers to create a better community. Providing people with the scientific and programming tools to create and invent new solutions. Changes will not be over night... or maybe they really will. Focus on making things better instead of fighting crime and drugs.  How this type of community policing will be better for everyone and reduce real crime. Discuss some drawbacks but why overall it will produce a better society.

Draw back to consider and to be hashed out. Use a fail fast approach instead of trying to get the system perfect before implementation. Incremental decision making is necessary:
 Death of community officers bang gangs.
Conflict between Federal community officers and local police.
Corruption.
Potential money wasted. 
Conclusion: Amazing things that have come from the people and the ghetto in the past

Inventions, Art, science. Music, Dance. Why we are wasting what could be a crucible for the betterment of society, and creating crucibles of crime and stagnation instead. Instead of holding people down, refocus the energy to have society not only rise up, but scale up, as a whole, improving exponentially. Are there potential hazards with


A note from me
I wrote this outline. But no way I can write this book. Instead it should be written by many people. For instance all that brain power protesting right now. The brainpower for the Tea party. The brain power in the Occupy movement.  Politicians that actually want to get things done. If a bunch of smart grad student like people each wrote a chapter in the form of a well researched 3-5 page paper that is easy to read, this book could be written and on the internet in a week. If an organization like the NAACP got behind it, the people who write it can be hired on Craig's List and paid to write it. Or they could even crowd fund it. The book could continue to be honed and sharpened until it becomes a data driven catalyst for change in the legislature and something can actually happen. Something can be done on several fronts.