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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best hope is opposing blocks that result in something like this.

The “reasonable block”:
- Balcombe
- Sayles
- Katz
- Friedson
- Albornoz

The “worrying block”:
- Stewart
- Mink
- Jawando
- Fani Gonzalez
- Glass

The “tie breaker”:
- Luedtke

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I’m definitely concerned about the “worrying block.” Kate Stewart’s website says she wants to work to fully implement the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force recommendations. The police are already so short-staffed, and that report calls for further reductions. Specifically, a 50% reduction in force is suggested for Wheaton and Silver Spring, two districts experiencing an increase in crime. I know she’ll have support on this council, so I worry about how this will affect people living in those districts AND how it will affect remaining officers.[/quote]

Sounds like a disaster.[/quote]
yea, let's reduce the police force in high crime areas. That'll teach those criminals.  Or maybe progressives think that the criminals will feel less threatened so they'll be less likely to commit a crime?  [b]I honestly don't understand how their mind works.[/b][/quote]

I'll explain. I don't want to live in a police state. Society can't be run by police. We need to improve society to take care of the problems causing all this crime. We can't just continue pumping out criminals and pumping out police. That's not a decent, intelligent, thought-out solution, and not the kind of society I want to live in. Also not the kind of society we used to have. Police are not the answer.[/quote]

Where do police fit in? We can provide better mental health services, improve k-12 education, increase access to health care, work toward more affordable housing… we can do all of this, and there will still be crime. It’s very naive to assume otherwise. What then? Who responds? You say police aren’t the answer, but be logical. Sometimes they are the ONLY answer. I assume you live somewhere with low crime. I don’t. I feel better with police in my neighborhood. I’m well aware many of my neighbors do, as well. Supporting police is not equal to calling for a police state. (Who is actually calling for that anyway? That’s simply hyperbole. We just want elected officials to work WITH police instead of making the job so undesirable that we can’t even hire any, which is where we are.) 
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We need police who work WITH the community, too. The police are bizarre -- they're like a military force. I do live in a relatively safe neighborhood, and I used to call the police when I saw issues, but now I don't. Now I really have to ask myself if calling the police will make things better or just end in someone being killed.

We need to change the way the police are trained. They're trained to make hair-trigger decisions as if each interaction is a matter of life or death. I get that that is true sometimes, but not all the time. Common sense goes a long way.

We have a societal problem. More police won't solve it.[/quote]

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