RE: Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve.
July 6, 2021 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2021 at 1:34 am by The Architect Of Fate.)
Quote:I agree that social services and mental health and things like that need more funding. You don't necessarily need to take money away from the police to achieve that though. Just give those things more funding.No diverting funds from the police are an economical way to fund them. Police budgets are bloated and could go to more effective measures to lower crime.
Quote:In some mental health situations, you really do need the police though. I don't think it's really a good idea to put a mental health professional in harm's way when someone is having an episode and carrying around a knife in a threatening manner, for example.Almost never are police needed in such situations. In fact they often make things way worst by escalating the situation when it could have been deescalated.
"Change was inevitable"
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM