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Originally Posted by jar_e
I mean 80-85% of police budget is salary. Is there an argument for relocating officers into roles? Sure. But it’s not like they have six billion to decide how to spend every year. I imagine like everywhere else every dollar is spoken for.
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I'm not saying I know exactly how to reallocate funding, I just feel like if you have a budget in the billions, you can likely find ways to readjust that spending to allow for less confrontational and dangerous officer interactions. Have officers trained for conflict management, with specialized training to manage civilians with mental health issues, train them for deescalation, etc.
And given that it cost NYC nearly $70 million for NYPD lawsuits, you could probably use some of that money in other ways.
We constantly tell teachers to tighten their belts, we cut education funding, we cut community development funding, but we give police departments carte blanche.
Police are held to an entirely different standard than other public services.