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Every day in this country, citizens are under attack from LEO’s across the country. Police have never acted as nor wanted to be seen as guardians of low income/POC neighborhoods.
As we ponder things like defunding the police, thinking about who in our society is best suited to handle issues that do not require a potential for gunplay, or tazers. As you click through some of this (should you choose to see what’s happening in our country to our own citizens), just remember:
Defunding the police does not mean abolishing (God I wish), it simply means we stop making sure a civilian protection agency stops arming itself like citizens are insurgents in an occupied country.
Two links below are both dedicated to acting as almost a storage depot for images and stories of this truth. Nothing is more powerful than simply watching cops be cops without the sheen of an ABC Family show depicting Good Christian People fighting the good fight.
These bystanders recorded police brutality. Here’s what they say about the experience.
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1284526898991828992?s=21
PS: Bonus clip: Here are cops pleading with a dangerous mob to please please please move back oh pleeeease.
https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1303111233801916417?s=21
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You mentioned confirmation bias in another post, physician heal thyself.
The actual stats show you are peddling a false narrative.
Every day in this country, citizens are under attack from LEO’s across the country. Police have never acted as nor wanted to be seen as guardians of low income/POC neighborhoods.
As we ponder things like defunding the police, thinking about who in our society is best suited to handle issues that do not require a potential for gunplay, or tazers. As you click through some of this (should you choose to see what’s happening in our country to our own citizens), just remember:
Defunding the police does not mean abolishing (God I wish), it simply means we stop making sure a civilian protection agency stops arming itself like citizens are insurgents in an occupied country.
Two links below are both dedicated to acting as almost a storage depot for images and stories of this truth. Nothing is more powerful than simply watching cops be cops without the sheen of an ABC Family show depicting Good Christian People fighting the good fight.
These bystanders recorded police brutality. Here’s what they say about the experience.
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1284526898991828992?s=21
PS: Bonus clip: Here are cops pleading with a dangerous mob to please please please move back oh pleeeease.
https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1303111233801916417?s=21
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Perhaps this is best described as the out of control government employee thread. The problem is not that a small number (percentage?) of public employees take some very bad (brutal?), and at times illegal, actions - the probelm is that they are given substantial (public employee union) protection from suffering instant job loss and (individual) legal consequences for taking those actions.
They act this way due to a systemic problem though. We’ve been told for decades that it’s always just a few bad apples, but then we do nothing about the entire spoiled bunch.
Police departments have mostly been vectors for corruption, violence and as we see they are uniformly unfit to deal with anything unless they are allowed to use violence.
We keep using a hammer regardless of whether the item on the other end is a nail or not. I don’t agree that this issue is fixed up with just more consequences for bad actors. We need to change the system, and fundamentally how we view and regard the use of police in our society.
You don’t get to the point depicted in all of this footage due to just a small percentage of bad cops. The thin blue wall is designed to make them all complicit.
Every day in this country, citizens are under attack from LEO’s across the country. Police have never acted as nor wanted to be seen as guardians of low income/POC neighborhoods.
As we ponder things like defunding the police, thinking about who in our society is best suited to handle issues that do not require a potential for gunplay, or tazers. As you click through some of this (should you choose to see what’s happening in our country to our own citizens), just remember:
Defunding the police does not mean abolishing (God I wish), it simply means we stop making sure a civilian protection agency stops arming itself like citizens are insurgents in an occupied country.
Two links below are both dedicated to acting as almost a storage depot for images and stories of this truth. Nothing is more powerful than simply watching cops be cops without the sheen of an ABC Family show depicting Good Christian People fighting the good fight.
These bystanders recorded police brutality. Here’s what they say about the experience.
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1284526898991828992?s=21
PS: Bonus clip: Here are cops pleading with a dangerous mob to please please please move back oh pleeeease.
https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1303111233801916417?s=21
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Good post but the definition of defund is not arbitrary.
Words have meanings.
de·fund
/dēˈfənd/
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verbUS
prevent from continuing to receive funds.
Having more (direct and immediate) consequences for "bad actors" among police would be a major systemic change. The "blue wall" is very much part of the current system whereby external actions (police actions upon members of the general public) are dealt with using internal investigations.
The only ones with the power to initiate criminal charges are government employees, if they refuse to do so for the (alleged criminal) actions of other government employees then that (systemic problem) must be dealt with.
Sure. All the footage contained in the links is just pedo Hollywood propaganda with crisis actors.
Yes, the left has never been great at branding. That said, I don't see in that definition the word, "all".
So you can defund the police of all paramilitary gear funds, without abolishing the police, for example.
You continue to confuse a cherry picking of true anecdotes with statistical reality.
Since I saw a video collection of black violence, your reasoning says I should conclude this is the norm.
Your thinking process is no different than kkk types.
That's not how it's playing out. Anti-gang, anti-trafficking, swat and other important units are being disbanded in favor of more cops on patrol.
Yes, the left has never been great at branding. That said, I don't see in that definition the word, "all".
So you can defund the police of all paramilitary gear funds, without abolishing the police, for example.
It's a terrible slogan that losses votes.
You don’t think we can find 1k of black violence? PleaseOne or two items would be cherry picking. The twitter thread in question has 1k entries in it alone.
This is what we see and document. Just imagine what this looked like prior to cell phones and body cams.
We are agreeing with each other. The processes you’re describing can only come about in a system that has recognized the nature of what’s broken and implemented changes to address that.
You don’t think we can find 1k of black violence? Please
Of course it’s cherry picking. All the video of cops doing a decent job gets ignored deleted from phones because nobody cares. It doesn’t get looked at.
It’s kkk type thinking and reasoning.
Of course it’s cherry picking. All the video of cops doing a decent job gets ignored deleted from phones because nobody cares. It doesn’t get looked at.
For every time the police are caught on camera doing something dirty, how many times do you think the police are doing dirty things that are NOT caught on camera?
KKK type thinking and reasoning suggests that systemic racism is acceptable so long as the cops are nice to *you*.
That is somewhat the case, however, simply using (or threatening) a reduction in total department funding is not likely to be effective unless, of course, that reduction is of public union funding and contract term changes. As is the case with "bad" (substandard?) teachers, reducing the public education budget is not suggested as a viable solution, in fact, the opposite (higher teacher pay, easier removal of "bad" teachers and better training/supervision) is often recommended.
No, it suggests blacks are the problem with systematic black violence rampant in the streets. And it uses the same reasoning you do, ignore statistics and the big picture and use anecdotes to push your false narrative.
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