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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
And nobody has been able to define what this buzz phrase actually means.
How about instead of looking at silly concepts like defund the police, that they look at the balance of funding between enforcement arming, training and recruiting.
I think a big part of the issue with the police lies in recruiting and training. They are getting the wrong mix of people in and the training seems to be piss poor. You can also recalibrate funds in terms of policing the police.
But throwing out buzz words without meaning when we're talking about defunding the police is going to create worse situation and create greater levels of mistrust.
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Read through the information here for what it means.
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
Here is a nice summary
https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...o+Policing.pdf
There are policy ideas backed by research and data which have been shown to reduce both civilian and police harm. It includes your ideas on recruiting and training amoungst many others.
In the de-funding concept would be the cal to end broken windows policing
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Only 5% of all arrests made in America are for violent crimes. Meanwhile, the vast majority of arrests are for low level offenses that pose no threat to public safety. Police departments should decriminalize or de-prioritize enforcement of these issues. And cities should begin scaling up the role of mental health providers, substance abuse counselors and other community-based responses to these issues that are more effective and that do not risk exposing communities to police violence.
• Decriminalize or de-prioritize enforcement of low-level offenses, including drug possession, public intoxication, loitering, jaywalking, disorderly conduct and prostitution.
• Establish enforceable bans on police racial profiling as well as bans on the use of consent searches, pretext stops and stop-and-frisk. (Examples of these policies include the
NYC Racial Profiling ban, NYC Stop-and-Frisk reform, Rhode Island consent search ban)
• Establish alternative responses to mental health crises and issues like homelessness and substance abuse, including by deploying first responser teams of mental health providers and community intervention workers to the scene to handle these issues instead of police officers. (Eugene Oregon "Cahoots" First Responder Program)
• Reduce police budgets in accordance with the reduction in policing that results from ending the enforcement of low-level offenses and redistribute these funds into scaling up community-based alternatives.
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