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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Reducing funding for police is a very unpopular policy, including among Democrats and Black Americans. 23 per cent of Black Americans would like to see a net decrease in police funding in their community, compared with 38 per cent who want to see police funding increased. For Hispanics, those numbers are 16 per cent and 46 per cent, and for Democrats 25 and 34.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...in-their-area/ |
I would say that the vast majority of Americans want spending to go to the right places for police services. Right now, too much of that funding is being spent on the militarizing of law enforcement, not on putting officers on the street or giving them training on how to be the peace officers the public expects them to be. The police get a ton of money as it is. Stop spending it on making them killing machines and instead spend it on training them how to deal with, and diffuse situations.