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Nobody is saying that is a bad thing.  It's just not a comprehensive solution.  Have you all read the task force report on public safety reform?  It's a nightmare. [/quote]

A solution is a solution, even if it's not a comprehensive solution.[/quote]

But that's not what they are proposing.  They want all traffic enforcement gone.   They want to shift traffic to the Department of Transportation.   Both automated and live traffic enforcement (they are doing a study on that now).  And then fire police because they aren't "needed" anymore, and shift the funds to mental health services.

Hucker and a few others want the automated traffic enforcement shifted to Transportation so that the politicians can influence where to put cameras, instead of basing it off of speed data and crash data.   And nobody cares about the safety of the poor civilian transportation staff who will be out there trying to pull people over.

They are about to pull SROs out of school, not realizing that arrests of kids of color might actually increase because there will no longer be any established relationships that make the officers see the kids as individuals with unique challenges.  Who understand why Johnny is carrying a knife, because he's scared of Joey and his 12 friends who jumped him last month.  Instead, it will be a responding patrol officer who sees nothing but a statistic.   Black male student with a concealed knife.

We are about to send our students back to school after a year of social isolation and ever-increasing mental health stress, and we expect schools to be magically safe when they all return?

But the defund movement might take care of itself.  All the good cops are leaving and nobody is applying to join.  The caliber of the department is suffering tremendously.  And the community will end up with the type of department they accuse it of being.

These politicans want political points and truly do not care what the impact is on the community.   I guess it will take increased crime and more pedestrian deaths to wake people back up.  Then expect it to take at least a decade to repair.

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