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But as many of us have pointed out in the past few years, America’s major cities, particularly the ones that have tense relationships between black communities and heavily white police forces, are almost entirely Democratic run. Their city councils are Democratic. Their mayors are Democratic. In many cases, the governors of the states are Democratic. In the majority of these circumstances, there are no Republicans to blame. And for a little while, some non-conservative media institutionsstarted asking the uncomfortable question of why Democrats, who insisted they always opposed racism, ran cities where African Americans perceived the police forces as irredeemably racist. As Benjamin Wallace-Wells put it in The New Yorker, “A whole generation of Democratic mayors have seen their reputations defined by their inability to manage the aftermath of police killings:Rawlings-Blake in Baltimore, Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, Bill de Blasio in New York, Pete Buttigieg in South Bend.”
Sometimes, this desire by Democratic officials to distance themselves from the police forces they oversee reaches absurd heights. Back in June, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy violated his own executive order banning gathering in large groups by walking an anti-police-brutality march in Hillside. Who does he think the New Jersey State Police answer to? Why is he marching like an outsider when he’s the ultimate insider, in a position of authority over the police forces being protested?
Police departments were never going to be completely defunded.
What is happening, and should have happened a long time ago, is Police dpartments are now under the microscope. Governmental abuse should not happen regardless of which governmental department it is.
You should ask someone who chanted that.So you guys have been lying to BLM when you chanted "defund" at their rallies?
Does BLM know they were lied to?
I don’t know. I do know I hear a loot of people on the left talking about how future cops need to be screened and cops need more training. Do you think that costs more or less money.Should we keep throwing more money at the police, or not?
I don’t know. I do know I hear a loot of people on the left talking about how future cops need to be screened and cops need more training. Do you think that costs more or less money.
I am just repeating why the left is calling for. You tell me.So, throw more money at the problem.
Some people want to abolish police. Some people want to defund police. Some people seem to be okay with police snuffing people out.I am just repeating why the left is calling for. You tell me.
And some people prefer to believe life is some type of fairytale where if the good guys just be nice then the bad people in the world will just behave.Some people want to abolish police. Some people want to defund police. Some people seem to be okay with police snuffing people out.
Who would that be?And some people prefer to believe life is some type of fairytale where if the good guys just be nice then the bad people in the world will just behave.
Don’t play dumb. It’s not a good look for you.Who would that be?
I disagree with the articles analysis. The man are saying these instances are racist to increase their ratings. The complaint about policing isn't the least bit legitimate. It's a distraction. If anything police are ineffectual and the departments are broken the justice system weak. Look at the 8 months of riots.
I didn't post the snarky comment I'd written. It looks like I might as well have.Don’t play dumb. It’s not a good look for you.
I have seen you in plenty of the threads that talk about the recent police shooting. Lots of folks from the left are calling for more police training and being more selective of who should be cops.
The complaint about policing isn't the least bit legitimate.
More police training to better handle situations where the subject makes stupid decisions and escalates the situation, and being more selective who should be cops may not be all that out of line. But that's only 1/2 of the parties who are involved. What to do with the subjects who make stupid decisions and escalates the situation?Don’t play dumb. It’s not a good look for you.
I have seen you in plenty of the threads that talk about the recent police shooting. Lots of folks from the left are calling for more police training and being more selective of who should be cops.
Case and point.
sorry but I have seen too many of your posts to not know other wise.I didn't post the snarky comment I'd written. It looks like I might as well have.
"Everybody knows" that lots of people think that the police problems will be significantly reduced with yet another round of training and more money.
Your previous comment is shallow and/or disingenuous. I don't always have the patience for that. Nobody is proposing ideas that warrant your previous "fairytale" comment.
I don't hide my political positions, if that's what your attempted reframing is implying. You can keep digging and stay ignorant of the social justice movements, if you want.S
sorry but I have seen too many of your posts to not know other wise.
Are some point in the future you will understand that the world is not all sunshine and lollipops. And yes some people are just bad people
Can't really be that selective. It's a crappy job. Quality candidates know better than to pursue it.More police training to better handle situations where the subject makes stupid decisions and escalates the situation, and being more selective who should be cops may not be all that out of line.
Social justice movements are just about virtue signaling. To pretend otherwise is to be willfully ignorant.I don't hide my political positions, if that's what your attempted reframing is implying. Keep digging and stay ignorant of the social justice movements.
I know you don’t hide your political positions. It’s why it’s so easy to determine that you live in some sort of fairy tale land and not the real world.I don't hide my political positions, if that's what your attempted reframing is implying. You can keep digging and stay ignorant of the social justice movements, if you want.
"Virtue signalling" is just another lame conservative term for "I don't give aSocial justice movements are just about virtue signaling. To pretend otherwise is to be willfully ignorant.
It is a tough job, yes. An often thankless job, I'm sure. The good people who are drawn to that occupation appear to be called to performing that service for their communities.Can't really be that selective. It's a crappy job. Quality candidates know better than to pursue it.
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