Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son.
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While CNN tries to skew their reporting, they can't hide the fact that violent crime rates haven't reached the highs seen in the 90s, that crime is falling, and police payroll budgets have been slashed by over 40%, along with reduced over policing of black neighborhoods.
Literally defund the police is winning, even as racists try to fight it.
All my life I have listened to this debate.
In your country the "crime rate" is like unemployment stats. A weapon to be abused and misused to bash the public into doing what you want. All that time the only solution I have heard in the is "more police".
50-60 years of adding police has gotten you where, exactly?
Other countries have crime too. Some it so bad few can live there. But a lot are havens of tranquillity compared to say Miami, Los Angeles, and certainly Buffalo. In those countries studies have shown a better way than dispatching an army!
First you need to know that the fall in the crime rate in the 90's had nothing to do with Rudy Julianni and his 'get tough on crime". Every country in every continent had crime rates drop. Most scientists say the decline was the result of the ban on leaded gasoline!
WE don't need more cops. We need better cops. Backed up by non-criminal service teams. From what I have seen your cops don't even know "de-escalation techniques", let alone how and when to employ them. In large cities across the globe police are assisted by people trained to deal with Od's?mental illness. (It's not rocket science, even I've done it!)
No more death by cop. Before a guy Od'ing, acting out, cursing the clouds; somebody calls police, it escalates, the "suspect" becomes irate, dangerous and BANG! Blood in the street & sirens wailing! They had no other alternative.
Now we do, the price we no longer have to pay is the aftereffects of police who have to kill someone in the line of duty (For some it's a career ending experience, others go through therapy or alcoholism/drug addition). The price we don't pay is the cost of the inquiries such a killing produces. We don't have to have families crushed by what could have been avoided, and we all walk safer.