Nonsense : "Defund the Police"

[Schism]

What Defund the Police Actually Means - Rolling Stone

Now activists in Minneapolis are calling for more than just reform: They want the Minneapolis Police Department defunded — and those calls are catching on elsewhere as demonstrations against police brutality sweep across the country and peaceful protesters are met with more barbarism for speaking out against it.

Defunding the police does not mean stripping a department entirely of its budget, or abolishing it altogether. It’s just about scaling police budgets back and reallocating those resources to other agencies, says Lynda Garcia, policy campaign director at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “A lot of what we advocate for is investment in community services — education, medical access… You can call it ‘defunding,’ but it’s just about directing or balancing the budget in a different way.”

The concept is simple: When cities start investing in community services, they reduce the need to call police in instances when police officers’ specific skill set isn’t required. “If someone is dealing with a mental health crisis, or someone has a substance abuse disorder, we are calling other entities that are better equipped to help these folks,” Garcia says.

IOW it's another liberal cream pie of more gov't agencies to coddle the lazy.

 

[Oborosen]

What Defund the Police Actually Means - Rolling Stone



IOW it's another liberal cream pie of more gov't agencies to coddle the lazy.

If only such voices calling for this kind of change were the majority. We wouldn't have to worry about anything problematic coming out of any of this.

 

[VanceMack]

I SO wish one of the rat run cities would follow the dictates of the idiot leftists and actually do that. Imagine Detroit, Philly, Chicago, or any of those rat infested ****holes with no police presence (and that includes no private security for the celebs as well).