Defund the Police?

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This thread has turned out to be far more interesting than I thought it would. Good cross section of perspectives for the most part.

I still maintain my response to the OP's original question regarding the funding of law enforcement.

Their pay checks have gotten outrageous, their egos ridiculous, and their respect for the law minimal. It is indeed time to clean house.

It should be noted however that but for the outrageous paychecks, the other two issues with law enforcement have been a problem for, well, just about forever.

But coupled with decades of control and governance by the rapacious tyrannical oligarchy in this country, it has gotten to... at least feel worse.

Can't we at least pretend to support the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Principles under which this nation was founded and that our public servants actually work for the people, all the people, and not just the stinking rich?
 
We are world leaders in terms of incarcerations: https://www.statista.com/statistics/...0-inhabitants/

We are outsourcing corrections to the private sector, so this is now a profit center. If the folks who want to defund the police could do a better job of articulating this problem I think we might be able to have a real conversation.

I saw a local officer pull his cruiser over the other day and jump out to play football with some kids on the street. I think this is a policy issue that got perverted into a debate about police.

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Who would you then have go against the well-armed international drug cartels who, in today's world, have no problem with killing cops? Do we keep a separate military/National Guard/State Police unit for that action?
The cartels wouldn't have the funds to create their own armies if the demand here for their drugs wasn't so gigantic. Ignoring that part of the issue while engaging in an arms race with them won't end well.
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No other country in the world has, or even allows, the sheer number of immigrants from different races, cultures, ethnicities, religions, morals and beliefs; that means constant conflict as old world traditions are forced to coexist. Add in the destruction of the family for certain groups, major depression and poverty and drug use bvecomes a way of daily life for a lot of these folks and thus crimes become huge; so we incarcerate more than anyone except for maybe China. Now throw in the desire by Soros and others to destroy this country so the NWO becomes a reality and you get the current social unrest by mostly spoiled agitated white young people.

Most of this started with LBJ and continues to this day because of those who control the education of your children - the old "hand that rocks the cradle rules the world".

So, eliminate the need for drugs, you eliminate the need for narcotics units; get the DAs to actually prosecute criminals and make prison a deterrent and not a vacation and maybe you eliminate a lot of repeat offenders who police have to arrest over and over only to see them released or given a joke of a sentence. Thus these folks have NO fear of using violence, especially gun violence, because they rarely suffer any consequences, at least from the justice system.
 
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