Defunding the Police and the War on Cops

[Trihonda]

[kwelz]

Defund the Police and that 8 Points they want done are really stupid.

[yoni]

The rank and file of the police should unify and give in to this idea. Yes, a trial run should be done by every police officer calling in sick for 3 days.

You take a car you want to buy out for a test ride, let the nation test ride this stupid idea.

[The_War_Wagon]

The rank and file of the police should unify and give in to this idea. Yes, a trial run should be done by every police officer calling in sick for 3 days.

You take a car you want to buy out for a test ride, let the nation test ride this stupid idea.

Isn’t defunding just the Purge in action?

Yes.


Yes it would be.

[Business_Casual]

Who will Karen call if they defund the police?

https://youtu.be/95O3HJewq8s

[mark5pt56]

I retired 3.5 years ago, we would normally have 8-10 guys on a shift per Pct. On average there would be at least 1, usually 2 per day, per shift. Mandatory 2 officers per mental case which usually took 6-8 hours to end. So, there's 1/4 if not more of your manpower on those cases alone. Then all of the overdose cases didn't help either. Trying to remember, think it was 6 hours to place them and if no bed, the person was kicked loose if no charges. A politician's son was one of these cases and died afterwards somehow, OD I think. Well guess what?-yeah, extended to 12 hours by law.

I actually agree, to a point, that more funds SHOULD be put towards social services that could take the burden off of the police. Cops are called to solve problems that usually require master's degrees to solve, and with only about 8 hours of crash course training. It didn't used to be that way. Other mobile crisis services did used to exist in many cities, but were disbanded due to budget. But because the problems didn't go away, the cities just made the cops, the only ones available, do it. With more specific services like that, you actually could reduce the size of PDs, as their call volumes would be greatly reduced.

That being said, the people calling for this have a pipe dream that police are unneeded, and that social work and community conflict resolution groups can completely render law enforcement obsolete. Sorry, that's just not gonna happen.

[WillBrink]

That's such an incredibly bad idea that will make supporters regret the day they first contemplated it that I almost wish it would happen. You think cities are burning now, just wait.

The reason the Rodney King riots got so out of hand is because the cops pulled out and left everyone to handle whatever on their own. The only ones up to the task were a group of Koreans. The day the police abandon NYC, Chicago or LA is the day those cities burn to the ground.

One month of blue flu in those cities would see them all but destroyed.

[Esq.]

One month of blue flu in those cities would see them all but destroyed.

And the country would be better for it. We've had it too easy for too long.

[T2C]

One month of blue flu in those cities would see them all but destroyed.

It's started. Minneapolis is reporting that 14 officers resigned and 46 other officers retired early. Buffalo New York PD saw 60 officers resign from ERT, which reduces the number of crowd control personnel to control rioters (not protestors).

In our area, we are not seeing a lot more violence outside of the biggest city, but we are seeing Anarchist and ANTIFA graffiti and vandalism. The police chased a carload of ANTIFA and lost them somewhere in town.

Most of the far left, many wealthy, could not care less about inner city people or how they are treated by police. They also relish the idea of a city like Chicago burning to the ground without police presence.

[BoringGuy45]

And the country would be better for it. We've had it too easy for too long.

Of course, the further the pendulum swings in one direction, the further it will swing back. The prevailing thought would be "Democracy didn't work, anarchy didn't work...dictatorship maybe??"