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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

Do you expect MPD officers to walk a beat on this street?

[img]https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200608204157-01-defund-the-police-street-painting-dc-0608-full-169.jpg[/img]

You have told DC’s police what you think of them.

Why do you expect them to care about you now?

Why would they bother risking everything when you only want to prosecute police officers and not criminals?

You progressives did this.  Now you get to live with the consequences of your actions.[/quote]

You can post that picture all you like but ultimately it's meaningless, because DC *DID NOT* defund police in any meaningful way, and certainly NOT so much that it could even remotely account for the increase in crime.  If your police union is telling you otherwise, they are full of shit and they are the problem.

As police officers you swear an oath to uphold law and to protect and serve your community.  REGARDLESS of your police union leaders being snowflakes upset about some dumb shit painted on a pavement.[/quote]

Stop lying.

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The police budget numbers say otherwise.  That makes you the liar.  Period.  End of discussion.[/quote]

Uh huh.

“Police budget.”

Use that as your fig leaf.

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“Arrest powers.”

The federal standard for a “law enforcement officer” is whether that person has “arrest powers.”  That standard includes carrying a sidearm (a handgun), handcuffs, and the legal authority to detain and arrest a suspect.

DC has DECREASED the number of MPD officers with arrest powers.

They have many more “violence interrupters,” who have no arrest powers.

Negotiators. Counselors.  Community liaisons.  All are technically “MPD employees,” but they are not police officers and do not have arrest powers.

THIS is how DC and other cities have truly implemented “defund the police.”

Sure, the “police budget” may be the same, but let there be no doubt:

- police have indeed been defunded, in so many ways.

The PP up thread is lying to you.  Police have been defunded.[/quote]

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