What you need is an actual police force that protects and serves. At this point, US police is little more than another criminal gang. You need police officers that get 4 years of training, that are held accountable for their actions when they cross lines, that come from the communities that they will serve… You know, basic rules that apply to police officers in most civilized countries.
Most US citizens don’t realize how messed up and weird theit country really is. Saying “defund police” may sound like a reasonable option from your perspective, but anyone living in a country with actual police that actually serves and protect, it sounds like crazy talk
The other thing to keep in mind about the “defund the police,” slogan is that most other countries cops do their jobs with way less than half the funding that US cops get. They also don’t have the largest and best equipped military in the world just handing them old equipment, from weapons, to body armor, to armored vehicles.
Ok, well here, and I say this as someone who was victim to a pretty bad crime this summer, we’ve tried other things. Retrain the cops? They select training that teaches them to think of suspects as a constant threat to their life and listen to their gut or stuff like drug training that puts them in deadly fear of fentanyl and teaches them to mistreat marijuana users even where it’s legal. Fund them better? They buy military surplus equipment like MRAPs. Body cameras? They turn them off. Any accountability whatsoever? They stick together better than the mafia.
And all this with a purely puntitive justice system. It needs a complete overhaul and that begins by making sure the police can’t afford military vehicles.
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What you need is an actual police force that protects and serves. At this point, US police is little more than another criminal gang. You need police officers that get 4 years of training, that are held accountable for their actions when they cross lines, that come from the communities that they will serve… You know, basic rules that apply to police officers in most civilized countries.
Most US citizens don’t realize how messed up and weird theit country really is. Saying “defund police” may sound like a reasonable option from your perspective, but anyone living in a country with actual police that actually serves and protect, it sounds like crazy talk
The other thing to keep in mind about the “defund the police,” slogan is that most other countries cops do their jobs with way less than half the funding that US cops get. They also don’t have the largest and best equipped military in the world just handing them old equipment, from weapons, to body armor, to armored vehicles.
Ok, well here, and I say this as someone who was victim to a pretty bad crime this summer, we’ve tried other things. Retrain the cops? They select training that teaches them to think of suspects as a constant threat to their life and listen to their gut or stuff like drug training that puts them in deadly fear of fentanyl and teaches them to mistreat marijuana users even where it’s legal. Fund them better? They buy military surplus equipment like MRAPs. Body cameras? They turn them off. Any accountability whatsoever? They stick together better than the mafia.
And all this with a purely puntitive justice system. It needs a complete overhaul and that begins by making sure the police can’t afford military vehicles.