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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I ended up calling the non emergency line and stressed that he was not harming anyone. The police came out, woke him up, nicely explained that he couldn’t sleep in front of someone’s door, and then left after he walked away.[/quote]

So where do you stand on defunding the police OP?[/quote]

DP.  I dislike the phrase "defunding the police" because it is misinterpreted all the time.  I agree that some funding should be redirected from the police to social services so that police don't have to come out because of a homeless person who isn't being violent or threatening.  Or out to deal with a mentally ill person.  That should be handled by people specifically trained in those areas.  We really need to have better resources for mentally ill people and homeless people (there's often an overlap) in this country.  Having police handling those situations is a terrible idea.  We still need to appropriately fund the police for the areas that they actually have expertise.[/quote]

Yet police have been doing this successfully for decades.   Why stop now?  [/quote]

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