BLM protest walked by my house today, and I swear 90% of them were at least as pasty-white as I am.
Defunding the police. Which would absolutely lead to an increase in deaths in general and the deaths of black Americans in particular. That's the exact thing people were chanting for.
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Defunding the police completely is a fringe view and you know it. The protesters want transparency and accountability for bad actors above all else. And it wouldn't hurt to get police out of jobs social workers can do much more effectively. But keep on nutpicking.
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"Take us seriously, not literally." Nah, when people chant "defund the police" they're responsible for arguing "defund the police."
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I'll stick up for defunding here for the first time. No, it won't lead to anything bad because all were doin is selling their big boy weapons and giant tanks but all the good officers still have their good brains and able bodies and normie guns that almost regular folk have.
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Crime went down in NYC when the cops were on strike Just sayin
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You really don't get what the defund movement is about, do you, Dan? If you're assuming we mean defund and then do literally nothing else, then yeah, it would be bad. It's a good thing no one is actually proposing that, Dan.
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Also, Dan, you are aware that "defund the police" ≠ "completely abolish the police", right? Even now, when you call 911, that's an umbrella for a variety of services--fire brigade, EMS, police, etc. The defund movement just seeks to shift budget away from police to fund more (1/
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Lets see the peer-reviewed data that modern policing *deters* violent crime. Police clearance rates have plummeted in recent years, and it's especially bad for violent crimes and property crimes.
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