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[quote=Anonymous]OP - democrats are the ones who destroyed “community policing.”  Your party.

From the first link in OP’s post:  “Community policing—also known as relationship-based policing or partnership policing—aims to engender a trusting relationship between officers and the people they’re meant to protect, two groups which, in big cities especially, can have strikingly different social, racial, and economic backgrounds.

Walking the beat, engaging with residents at a personal level, is at the heart of that initiative. “If you understand the culture and you respect it, you’ll be able to police it more effectively,” said Fernando Rejón, a director for the Urban Peace Institute who helps to train law enforcement officials in community-based policing and gang intervention.”

OP - starting in the late 1940s, it was unions who pushed for every police officer to have their own car.  Unions made the arguments:

- officers were safer in cars,
- officers needed cars to chase down criminals,
- officers could respond faster using cars, but:

Not just any cars:  police unions DEMANDED that local governments buy ONLY cars and trucks made in the USA.  And why?  - because it meant more money into the coffers of the Teamsters(mobsters/ Jimmy Hoffa) in Detroit.

Teamster and police unions’ political  contributions go 100% to:  democrats.

Result:  the police since the 1940s have been reduced to:

- a “cleanup crew” for 911 calls.

Think about that:  police only respond AFTER a 911 call has already been made.  Most of the time, a 911 call only occurs AFTER the crime has already been made.  Democrats did that.

Police do not walk beats because their unions wanted officers to ride exclusively in cars (exclusively US made cars), where the officers are disconnected from the community.

Prevention has dropped to near zero, as a direct result.[/quote]

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