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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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“Nobody knows what this means so here’s my issues with what it means.”
As entertaining as I’m finding the interpretations of “disband the current police department” as “COMPLETE ANARCHY AND CHAOS, MURDER IN THE STREETS, EVERYONE WILL NEED TO BE ARMED” it’s probably worth just looking at other examples where this has worked, examples that conveniently do centre highly around re-training and putting the right people in the right positions (instead of having an inexperienced beat cop deal with someone having a mental health crisis, for example). What it doesn’t mean, which is pretty clear, is chaos.
How about instead of calling the concepts silly, we wait to see what the concept is. Just a thought.
And hey, if you’re worried about the Minneapolis Police Department creating mistrust and terrible situations, boy have I got a couple weeks worth of news for you.