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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re more likely to be a victim of police abuse than of random crime.

Defund cops. [/quote]

Without taking issue with defunding cops as a policy goal, this is almost definitely not true for the mostly white residents of Friendship Heights, who may as well be invisible to the police. [/quote]

They are likely to be victims of neither.  That's why they have the luxury of advocating for defunding police.  People who actually live in higher crime areas know how much worse it would get without a real police presence.[/quote]Look, I live in a high crime area and I hear gun shots and some of us call 911 and the police arrive quickly.....AFTER THE SHOOTING.  Doesn't help much.  We need more violence interrupters and social services that make it in people's interest not to get revenge using guns.

You wanna put a cop on every corner 24 hours a day observing the neighborhood?  Sure, maybe that would stop the violence but it would be prohibitively expensive.  Why not spend that money on things that address the problems and keep them from escalating into shooting?  Because the cops aren't there for the shooting.  While I have respect for many of them, the truth is that they come afterwards and put up yellow tape and try to find out who did it.  They don't stop anything at all.[/quote]

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