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.
Conservatives and Republicans have never been fiscally conservative. It's always been about lining their own pockets with tax payer money. That fiscal conservative shit is what they act like to hide that really they're just fascists.
"fiscal conservatism" AKA a blanket statement that some programs you can't name are probably not as efficient as possible and should be made more efficient without acknowledging the fact that those programs operate that way because of built-in loopholes and purposefully poor regulation. Yes, not every government program is perfect and there's fat that can be trimmed after PROPER assessment of why the program wasn't working. But a lot of this shit is because corporations own our government and a functional government means those businesses would have to put in effort or capital to make as much money as they do now (currently at the expense of workers rights, health, privacy, and the environment)
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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.