Defund the Police?
Regarding defunding police.. Before you have a knee jerk reaction, think about it.
Wealthy people and businesses will hire private security companies. (And probably save money doing it)
It's the police union that makes it difficult to hold police accountable.
Maybe communities could build trusted forces and or hire security companies themselves?
Personally I am not opposed to rethinking much of our Justice system.
State/city funded police officers make an arrest, person has to hire attorney or accept the state provided attny and they are in the system. The police over charge the "accused" because they know it will go through plee bargaining and the attorneys make a lot of money, yet no one feels like they got justice.
The system is very biased to race, money and connections.
I think we should brain storm how to fund community accountable security.
While we are at it, let's reconsider our punitive process as well. We are holding a lot of people in expense jails who areneither being rehabilitated nor are they a threat to society. Maybe there are better and more effective modes of punishment for many crimes.
Don't confuse publically funded Police Departments with anarchy.
it look's it's getting worse out there wu. You're in America, right? Take care
There are many countries where it has been proven that less aggressive policing, with the funds instead invested in social community services has resulted in less crime and safer neighborhoods.
Same applies in the other way: the UK has seen a massive increase in gang violence because of years of austerity, during which social community services were cut. Combined with ever increasing gentrification, this has resulted in bigger and more violent gangs because the ones at the bottom of the financial chain had no places to go to anymore where they could build (safe) social circles, as well as get assistance in how to grow professionally and become full-time earners.
This is one of the biggest issues, especially because many local Union leaders joined the squad in the 80s, early 90s and were trained in offensive and oppressive policing reactions. With a president like Trump, and his asslicking GOP governors, they are reinforced in their old-school beliefs and methods.
VIOLENCE = FEAR
FEAR = CASH MONEY DOLLARS
It's called "reward hacking".
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Alright then. Thanks for the bullshit elaboration but whatever you believe. 👌
There's a LOT that could be changed for the better in this idea :)
You run on that platform and you might just get me to vote. 😜
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