• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Stop that, please.

      That entire “defund the police” is the dumbest idea out there. You NEED police, any society needs police. Either that, or next time your being assaulted or robbed, well, sucks to be you.

      What the US needs is a completely restructured police system, from the ground up. It needs officers that received training, not the 3-6 months dicking around with idiots that teach them “anyways, then I started blasting”. It needs restructuring of yhe laws so that they can be held accountable when they abusre their powers. They need to learn how to de-escalate situations instead of throwing oil on fires. Racism needs to be squeezed out.

      This is how police works in other countries, this is why in other countries we actually like and respect police .

      This also requires other changes in the US. This justice system based on revenge has to go. Focus on rehabilitation instead. You gotta limit your guns. I know that people start screeching at the idea, bit if by now it’s still not clear that US citizens are NOT able to responsibly use their guns, then you have issues. You yourself might be super responsible but the next ten people are not. Take the guns away. Best would be all of it.

      Those are things that will make your country nicer, and your police actually respectable.

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        4 months ago

        Defund the police means take their bloated military surplus budget, reduce it to reasonable levels and channel those funds into social services instead. It doesn’t mean ‘erase all cops’

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          4 months ago

          They say something more precise

          Defund the police is used uite successfully by extreme right to make centrist and moderate left look dumb