Doesn't defunding the police mean less crime will be addressed and fewer cases will be solved?
More bizarre contradictory philosophy from Demorcats....OR were they lying along?
Facing a $150 million budget cut, the department is preparing to decrease its ranks and disband units that handle things like sex crimes and animal cruelty
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Not at all. Crime rates are all dropping. As municipal budgets have dropped for every type of government agency, police budgets have been rising. But police officers raises and promotions are based on the numbers of tickets they issue and their arrests and convictions. What this has created is a scenario where more and more police officers are chasing fewer and fewer criminals.
Notice how all of these police killings of unarmed blacks always involve 4 or 6 cops on one unarmed man, and a crime so petty it's unbelievable the police are devoting this level of resources to it. Eric Garner - 6 cops to deal with a crime of selling cigarettes on the corner. 4 cops to investigate a counterfeit $20 bill in the George Floyd case. Michael Brown was killed over a chocolate bar. And that poor man whose car broke down on the highway, about a half a dozen cops were involved in his murder.
When families are dealing with mental health problems, their loved ones need to be subdued and taken to hospital. Not wrestled to the ground and smothered until they stop breathing. Armed police should be not sent out on such calls. And they shouldn't be demanding paramedics dispense drugs to their victims.
