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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Granted, "defund the police" is poor branding for what is good policy, but people are taking what it means way too far. It does mean trading social workers for police. [b]It means at the very least smartly rethinking which situations require armed response and which do not.[/b] Peace officers with arrest powers are more appropriate in vastly more cases than armed response, which by definition escalates situations and empowers poorly trained police to shoot themselves out of situations they could and should think themselves out of. That's a start.[/quote]

We already have that.
311 and hot lines.

What is ''peace officers''? Sheep for thugs to slaughter? 
How a peace officer will arrest a guy that will turn violent out of the blue? 
How it will be sorted out what person is peaceful enough for peace officers? By dispatcher? By sending four teams to the scene - medics, social workers, peace officers, police officers?

And most importantly, who is going to foot the bill having all these people saving one thug useless to a society in a first place?

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You can ask all those questions about "who will decide" and then have the unmitigated gall to decide for yourself who is useless to society? [/quote]

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