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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm all for taking away their military grade gear, reconsidering what weapons they actually need at what times to protect themselves and others, and ending qualified immunity, the latter of which I think would do a ton.  I'm really scared that parts of DC will go the way of Baltimore with unchecked criminality.  We also already have basically no traffic enforcement and really need more cops on that beat.  Really unsettled by the calls to defund and won't support them.[/quote]

It's scary because you don't understand how it would work, right?  So what about learning about how it would work.  Would you commit to reading three serious sources?

If you ask any the pedestrian/bike safety people, they'll tell you that enforcement feels like it would help but is meaningless.  Only infrastructure change will matter.[/quote]

All this talk about "defunding the police" is really conservatives who are against slashing police budgets amplifying a fringe minority of people who really want to technically defund police departments to distract from the real issue: out of control police. It is not a serious proposal.

What IS a serious proposal is reducing the size of police budgets. Organizations and bureaucracies only really innovate when they have less money. Police are no exception. If we really want to reform and revamp how police are recruited, trained, employed and how they deploy their tactics on the streets, we really need start with reducing the size of police budgets and start spending that money in a better way.

Seriously: Make every cop in every police department interview for their job. Fire all the white supremacists and entitled a55holes who feel they deserve to brutalize citizens for sport. Hire good police like the Charlottesville PD chief (who also just happens to be a black woman) and let them restaff their forces.[/quote]

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