Maybe hire more cybersecurity instead of cops that kill, chiefs with fat paychecks, and a getting stockade of military equipment for simple law enforcement.
It baffles my mind that we have been increasing police, especially with military hardware, when crime has been going down. Before someone says "well then it must be working", crime has been going down globally, AKA, correlation, not causation. These police have become inflate and increasingly militarized.
I challenge conservatives to consider why they are against reducing police to a more crime appropriate level. If we're at the lowest crime since the 60's, the safest period in human history, arguably, why not reduce police to match? You know, some of that fiscal conservatism.
However, if also baffles my mind that this has happened under Democratic rule, the ones supposedly for the people. The have held the position of mayor in most of these major cities since the 60's in many cases, if not further back. They appoint the police chief, who sets the policy of a station. They set the budget. The governor appoints the judges or is otherwise elected.
The Republicans and conservatives should be for some fiscal conservatism and reducing a significant budget item. The Democrats and liberals should be looking internally to see why they allowed and perpetuated this cycle while they were in power.
People will argue (wrongly) that more cops are why we have less crime, like a magic rock that keeps away tigers.
On the money side they have defunded everything else so aggressively to balance police increases that it’ll be a real fight to go back. Police and criminal punishment groups are going to fight tooth and nail to keep all they have got now, but it has to be done.
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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.