I hate how the right is claiming that the left seriously wants to defund the police into nonexistence. Fact is, the only places with a strong enough democratic influence to defund police also have such strong unions that the police unions won’t let it happen.
Defunding the police isn’t about making police not exist anymore; it’s saying that small town police don’t need military equipment yet my parents small Oklahoma town of 30,000 has an armored humvee. That’s unnecessary.
Me, I think there’s a lot of stuff police are injected into that would be better relegated to others. Like, if instead of criminalizing homelessness and drug abuse, what if we tried to help the homeless get off the streets and clean up addicts? Police don’t need to be first responders for most mental health checks either.
Defunding the police isn’t about making police not exist anymore; it’s saying that small town police don’t need military equipment yet my parents small Oklahoma town of 30,000 has an armored humvee. That’s unnecessary.
Me, I think there’s a lot of stuff police are injected into that would be better relegated to others. Like, if instead of criminalizing homelessness and drug abuse, what if we tried to help the homeless get off the streets and clean up addicts? Police don’t need to be first responders for most mental health checks either.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
