You can always find examples where things weren't done correctly, but that doesn't reduce the vast number of times when cops are not only held accountable, but sometimes find their careers ruined over non-critical things. Nor does it change the reality that reducing the funding of police departments will lead to more crime and more demand for police action.Many cops already hate the Internal Affairs people looking over their shoulders, second guessing every move they make. Most times, any time they pull a weapon and fire it, they land on a desk job for a few weeks until an investigation is completed. There are thousands, if not millions of cops on the street and a handful cause problems of this sort. Most of them face prosecution and if they ever end up in prison, it's a death sentence. So yes, they need to be held accountable, but reducing the funding that make possible their very existence is not the answer.Trying to defund police departments is possible the worst way to accomplish what you are trying to do. What will happen as funds are diverted from police work is fewer officers on the streets, less training for the officers still willing to put their lives on the line and less oversight of those officers, all because the funds those things need are gone. What happens? Longer wait times for the police to arrive (if they do at all), less trained officers trying to handle violent situations, more innocent civilians harassed, shot and killed, more crime and less justice. Then, what do you think will be the response of those who have been told they don't need to protect themselves with firearms or weapons of any kind, that they just need to call the police? Answer, the demand for more police presence. The end result, you've shot yourself in the foot and lost the support you might have had. If we want less authoritarian government, then we need more firearms and training for civilians to protect themselves.I remember Bubba Clinton promising 100,000 more police on the streets. Times certainly have changed.
Not really. There is still a large support for the huge, overbearing authoritarian government.
Well you could support holding them accountable, but that seems to be beyond the grasp of many.
Who has been held accountable for the lies told to obtain the warrant against Breonna Taylor?
Its been nearly two years here. Who has been held accountable?