the sniderman
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don’t u all have guns for that??
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This seems like a very realistic scenario conceived by a serious person who's devoted more than two minutes thought to the topic of contemporary law enforcement.
Grinch that isn’t what is being suggested and you are smart enough to know it.
For example cops are very ill equipped to deal with a mental health crisis (suicide by cop being sadly common) and surely everyone, including the police themselves, would be better off if issues such as that being handled with less confrontation.
Yes as opposed to black people calling the police to help and they themselves get arrested or shot.
Plus if you bother to read, its not as simple as you are trying to make it.
In the face of this violence, Camden did something quite radical: It disbanded its 141-year-old police force.
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There is one very noticeable difference in Whitman Park over the past year: the number of cops on the street. Thanks to the reorganized force, there are now far more officers throughout Camden -- walking their beat in tandem, talking with residents, driving patrol cars.
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There is one very noticeable difference in Whitman Park over the past year: the number of cops on the street. Thanks to the reorganized force, there are now far more officers throughout Camden -- walking their beat in tandem, talking with residents, driving patrol cars.
Debunkology
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The Conservative government defunded the police across Britain. What happened was a rise in crime, and espcially in Labour areas where the cuts were felt the most.
The same people who argued against this, would be the same people talking about defunding the police to "solve problems".
It's called hypocrisy.
Grinch
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Yeah but not all parts of this country are to fond of them.
There's a big difference in how police in the UK and the US operate.
You'd probably be unhappy if your tax dollars were going to arm the UK police to the teeth.
Give them equipment the UK army probably don't have access to and then send them out to direct traffic around a pot hole.
My neighbor is one of those people who has a habit of calling the cops at a drop of the hat.
Last week there was two homeless guys sitting on the step across from our houses, one in a wheelchair at about 3pm. They were drunk but weren't bothering anyone. She called to report loitering and within a minute there was three cop cruisers with about 6 armed police all trying to figure out what to do. Eventually an ambulance was called because they couldn't get the guy in the wheel chair in to the cruiser. That, of course, came with another cruiser.
So there you are, one report for two drunk lads loitering, resulted in eight armed cops who were on the scene for about an hour.
In another case, a house up the street, for sale, was empty. The grown son, had used his key to get back in and someone reported a break in. The guy has mental issues and the cops scared him in to hiding, (he also had a police record), it took no time till cops were crouching behind cars with guns drawn, they had covered every angle of the house with military precision. The street was obviously closed down. Eventually a family member arrived and calmed the situation down.
Thats the last two times ive seen cops on our street, both in the last month.
People arent looking for no cops, just de-escalate their 'mini army for noisy neighbors' vibe.
Oh and yea, they give people of color a far harder time.
TheBigIguana
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It's genuinely the worst rallying cry I've ever heard. It is way too easy to spin into some madness about having no police and allowing people to have the purge or whatever that moves away from the legitimately positive goals people are trying to achieve.These points appeal to me but If you need all this text to clarify a three-word hashtag slogan, please note that your messaging really, really sucks.
I know our politics is f***** but Jesus hahaha, Joe Biden and the dems being socialism is the funniest thing ever, Americans are so weird.
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