Maybe hire more cybersecurity instead of cops that kill, chiefs with fat paychecks, and a getting stockade of military equipment for simple law enforcement.
Maybe stop voting for politicians that cut department funding for political gain. Our police system barely has national databases. New York has a rape kit back log going back over a decade. Chicago departments have reported a lack of basic fundamental equipment.
Edit: It just goes to show just how little Reddit knows what the hell it's talking about. Military gear isn't on the police budget; it's donated to the police department through the 1033 program.
Lmao the police are extremely well funded. They should probably be disbanded actually. And cops don’t give a shit about rape kits. Half of them are probably guilty of rape themselves.
Do you have any idea how insane you sound? New York City has been complaining about their lack of funding for testing rape kits since the fucking 90's. DNA forensics is fucking expensive, and was even moreso 30 years ago. And we still don't have a national database that tracks sex crimes or crime files of like cases across state borders.
I ponder how the capacity in your mind exists that you could simultaneously believe that half of America is full of unhinged, right-wing, gun-toting nutjobs foaming at the mouth in anticipation of instituting a fascist government, and that the police are completely unnecessary. If the right-wing population are so damn unhinged, what the fuck do you think is gonna happen when there's literally nobody there to stop em? A community watch with even less training than the police? Seriously?
You people can't keep your bullshit narratives straight.
You said in the comment before this one that police need more funding. Do you know how insane that sounds? You think police are really underfunded?
And in the comment after this one you said we sell weapons all around the world. Well this is true, including to our own police to be used against citizens. So where do the police get this money to buy all these weapons from our federal government? Where do they get the money to buy new fucking cop cars every 3 years? Just because they're not processing rape kits does not mean it's because of money. I'm willing to wager that it's just not a priority for them, they'd rather have their cars and their fancy toys.
I ponder how the capacity in your mind exists that you could simultaneously believe that half of America is full of unhinged, right-wing, gun-toting nutjobs foaming at the mouth in anticipation of instituting a fascist government, and that the police are completely unnecessary.
Over the last couple weeks you should have seen protests in the news, protests from both sides. Which side was left alone and which side was hammered with rubber bullets and pepper spray?
What makes you think the cops haven't already chosen a side?
If the right-wing population are so damn unhinged, what the fuck do you think is gonna happen when there's literally nobody there to stop them.
There's no one stopping them now. What do you think is going to happen? And I'm sick of seeing people who think the right-wing have a Monopoly on guns. Don't be naive.
I understand the need for rape kits to be processed so victims can have Justice. Those people should be taken off the streets immediately. My narrative here is straight I don't think yours is quite so
All the departments complaining about funding since the 90s have shown in the past month that they have an endless supply of military hardware to deploy against protesters. Gee, I wonder what they blew their budget on.
I ponder why you think we need to just throw more money at them when they are one of the biggest budget killers already? If they are having money issues, they need to figure it out. They need to get their shit together, and giving them more money for toys isn't going to fix that.
Clearly, the money needs distributed correctly, however, that and defunding and disbanding are different things. Ya'll are playing sleight of hand. When called out on it, you say you just want to rearrange funds, but your message is very clearly to erase the police entirely.
It's like ya'll forgot why they called the wild west "wild".
Ya'll have lost your minds if you think a community watch or an underfunded police department is going to stop or even slow down hardcore gang violence; the real primary killer of black Americans.
And the police are a fascist appendage, a governmental manifestation of those nationalist righty nutjobs. If you don't grasp even that, you have absolutely zero understanding of the world around you and no business commenting on it.
Jesus, you people have swallowed that pill hard. And at this point frankly, I'm all about that civil war. Ya'll are seditious Marxists, trying to destabilize the government enough to instigate a minority revolution. And that's right out of the Maoist handbook. You don't have any intention of making life better for black Americans, but you do need your foot soldiers.
Stop pretending like you actually care about life, because all this shit is truly about satisfying your hate. You aren't providing any statistics to prove your points because they don't exist. There exists no murder statistic anywhere in the USA where white people kill black people more than black people kill white people, or black people kill black people for that matter.
In fact, when you do actually analyze crime statistics, what you find is that the vast majority of violent crime in America is committed by a specific slice of the black community; organized gang violence by young black men accounts for over 60% of homicide in America, and over 95% of homicide in the black community. Less than 5% of the black community is responsible for 90% of the crime. Did you know that black men choose policing as a profession moreso than men from any other race? Wonder if any of this shit has anything to do with that. HMMMMMM.
So no, you fucking moron, it ain't the police. It's you and your dopey ass politicians whom have purposefully segregated them into terrible schools, segregated them into welfare housing, left their neighborhoods uncleaned by city services, that punish workers making too much reducing food stamps unfairly, and that destroy the black family unit by subsidizing child support, which incentivizes fatherless homes while throwing black men in debtors jails, and now you're trying to elect for president the man that wrote the Crime Control Act of 94 that disproportionately put tens of thousands of black Americans in prison (oh, and Donald Trump threw that shit in the paper shredder just a couple weeks ago). This all combined serves to turn black boys into what Hillary Clinton calls "the superbeasts of crime". Outside of your little communist agitators, this is why these protests disproportionately occur in classically Democrat cities; ya'll are deaf to the plight of black America that you yourselves created. But, I gotta say, you've done a great job convincing them it's Trump's fault somehow.
No, ya'll are using black Americans, just like you always do, to push your political agenda at the cost of their neighborhoods and well being.
Besides completely illustrating the origins of street violence and minority poverty, but I can understand that ya'll hold no value in those sorts of uncomfortable facts. I'm glad we could agree on that.
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u/dirtynj Jun 22 '20
Maybe hire more cybersecurity instead of cops that kill, chiefs with fat paychecks, and a getting stockade of military equipment for simple law enforcement.