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It's hard to paint with a broad brush bc police departments are so heterogenous, but hard or soft quotas & fines/confiscations that can fund the depts seem like corrupting factors. LEO shouldn't be funding themselves with police activity, but nobody else wants to fund them
fwiw, civil forfeiture & exploitative bail procedures (e.g. charging the accused for the use of their own GPS bracelets) absolutely destroys community goodwill toward the justice system. Unfortunately, I don't see how defunding police depts can possibly improve this situation
In a lot of places, police are the most well-funded part of local government. (41% of Oakland's entire budget, for example). https://populardemocracy.org/news/publications/freedom-thrive-reimagining-safety-security-our-communities … I could imagine getting behind a policy to cut police budgets while refocusing them almost entirely on violent crime.
Of all the functions local government has, protecting the lives and property of residents seems like a pretty decent #1 priority to have. I'm an Oakland resident. We have a serious crime problem here. Ask my neighbors whether they think we should reduce the police budget.
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