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It was God's will. What choice did they have?
No, it's a gross oversimplification of a much more convoluted issue. I get siloing makes it easier for you but it doesn't really work when you're trying to have an adult conversation. If law enforcement is only a suggestion with the same restrictions that civilians have, it's toothless and pointless and might as well be defunded.
It was God's will. What choice did they have?
Law enforcement sucks at protecting property and creating public safety, in fact it presents significant danger to the public and creates crimes more or less willy nilly, homing in on the poor and low caste folks.
Might as well defund it, good riddance to smelly garbage.
Police lawlessness presents and foments public disorder; it's a significant public safety problem, far more common and persistent than episodic riots.
~80% of the criminal docket is public nuisance misdemeanors . Ever wonder why police are so bad at clearing property crime and violent crimes?
They're too busy collecting fees and fines for bull misdemeanors with a de minimis effect on public safety. Maybe public safety isn't the true mission of the police department.
https://www.cato.org/publications/co...emeanor-systemThe over‐enforcement of malum prohibitum laws by the police and the misdemeanor court system raises serious questions about public resources and the reasonableness of how governments address relatively unserious nuisances.
https://www.basicbooks.com/ les/al...9780465093809/
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/68160...argets-the-poo
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This I know, which is why I carry a firearm and believe in the 2nd Amendment.
Good luck getting anyone out to your place to remove your ex who's beating your windows out with a bat.in fact it presents significant danger to the public and creates crimes more or less willy nilly, homing in on the poor and low caste folks.
Might as well defund it, good riddance to smelly garbage.
I'm more than certain that a big component of the police role is to serve and collect. They are a money making scheme, and the protection offered in the process is a side business.
That's certainly true. Civil forfeiture has reached a greater magnitude than all reported robbery and theft in the US.
Rigid anti-taxation sentiment also tends to cause overreliance of fees and fines (e.g.,., predatory, extractive pollicing) for revenue.
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...U_policing.pdf
https://www.governing.com/columns/pu...ines-debt.html
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Defunding police =/= aboiltion of police. That's a common strawman. There are abolitionists out there, from my own interactions it's not my impression they are numerous, ymmv.
Especially since Jesus was black
Seems they got to Jacob Blake pretty fast
Really?
Yeah, really. PDs need to be right sized and refocussed on serving public safety instead of policing racial caste and stuffing the municipal coffers with fees and fines.Really?
If a cop shoots an unarmed person they should be tried in a court of law just like you and I would be, but just because there are unjustified shootings doesn't mean all shootings are unjustified, and until there's a legal outcome are you going to reserve judgement or kowtow to social pressure to join the chorus and grab your pitchfork?
Defunding doesn't mean reduced funding. It means no funding. If I declaw a cat I am not trimming the nails.
The term started out as abolishment, and because of how ing stupid it was, instead of just eating the sandwich the left began to shift the narrative to reallocation of funds. That's hardly defunding the police. It's more like how congress pretends they are moving funds from one pocket to another but while you're not watching they'll still do everything they were going to do anyhow with those funds. Defunding would be no funding, let's not pretend words don't have meanings.
The dictionary definition doesn't govern what's happening. In practice, defunding police means reducing their funding. Decertifying PDs is politically nonviable.
Minneapolis did float a trial balloon about decertifying MPD but quickly reversed course.
US police are trained less than other countries, where police are considered professionals and certified vs "just anybody" in USA can be a cop.
"Texas licenses 37 of the 102 lower-income occupations studied here. Its laws are the 21st most burdensome and require, on average, $253 in fees, 341 days of education and experience, and around two exams. Licensing fewer lower-income occupations than most states, Texas ranks as the nation’s 42nd most broadly and onerously licensed state."
https://occupationallicensing.com/state/Texas/
iow, cosmetologists, and other low-end LICENSED occupations, get more training that the TX cops, who basically bunch of relative amateurs, under-trained, un-certified.
Except "defunded" police departments are still being funded.
the same legal system that constantly looks the other way regarding police, the ones who swept this under the rug for decades.
If that legal system did their ing job in the first place, and held police accountable for these shootings, there wouldn’t be any protests/riots right now. Don’t be purposely obtuse.
What are you going to do about it, post emojis and sulk?
If that legal system did their ing job in the first place, and held police accountable for these shootings, there wouldn’t be any protests/riots right now. Don’t be purposely obtuse.
Conflating the original intent with a more user friendly version doesn't make you right.
He's got 5 troll accounts ready to go.
Blurring the lines is integral for fence sniping.
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