Yes a social worker will stop the rapists and robbers!!

Anonymous wrote:Defund the police doesn't mean literally get rid of police and having no more police (a few mean that but most don't). It means that police are now responsible for areas that they didn't used to be, including mental health crises, homelessness, drug issues, school behavior issues, etc. that should be handled by other social services.

Defund the police means to shift some of the police budgets from the police to other social services, including community centers, youth leagues, social workers, home nurses and therapists, etc. Municipal funds can and should be reexamined and redistributed to invest in cities, not just tanks for police departments. What would you want to see to make your area a better place?

Thank you for this explanation. I am totally for "defunding the police" and I didn't even realize it

Defund The Police means a significant reduction or elimination of the budget for a Police Department.

Most Minneapolis Minnesota Legislators agreed to eliminate the Police Department last week.
https://www.startribune.com/mpls-council-majority-backs-dismantling-police-department/571088302/
https://twitter.com/LocalProgress/status/1269743892569698306


Why Define the Police? The Police & City are unable to change its continuing pattern of racial discrimination.
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/File/3733/Stipulation%20and%20Order%20Signed.pdf


Legislators in your DC Area Jurisdictions will soon consider defunding the Police too.

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Anonymous wrote:I have developed my own slogan which I think better embraces the thoughts behind the statement. It is Reduce, Reallocate, Reform

I like it!

Me too.

Anonymous wrote:It means Donald Trump will get re-elected.

After the terrible Coronavirus handling and fallout Democrats had a great chance. But now that the loudest voices of the party are shouting to Defund the Police, firing people left and right from high profile jobs for saying something not ‘right’ or aligned properly with the BLM movement as seen by the social media police, and screaming racist by omission, things have gone off the deep end. DT will make a clear win if this movement continues on the current track. This is extremism on the opposite end of the spectrum

Looting videos. The Santa Monica video. Molotov Cocktail video. Fade to “Defund the Police?” It writes itself.

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Anonymous wrote:“Defund the police” is something woke people like to say but haven’t really thought through.

No. What a lazy knee-jerk answer.

Here is a better place to start.

Anonymous wrote:Defund the police doesn't mean literally get rid of police and having no more police (a few mean that but most don't). It means that police are now responsible for areas that they didn't used to be, including mental health crises, homelessness, drug issues, school behavior issues, etc. that should be handled by other social services.

Defund the police means to shift some of the police budgets from the police to other social services, including community centers, youth leagues, social workers, home nurses and therapists, etc. Municipal funds can and should be reexamined and redistributed to invest in cities, not just tanks for police departments. What would you want to see to make your area a better place?

NP here. I get that defund the police doesn’t literally mean to abolish it, but only because I’ve taken to the time to dig into it a bit more online. I agree with another poster who said it’s poor messaging. Why even say “defund” something that you’re not really trying to defund. It just gives ammo to the Breibarts of the world to claim BLM wants to get rid of police altogether and then conservative boomers will forward these articles in emails as a scare tactic to make the protestor’s demands look crazy.

Why not something about “redefine policing” or something like that. There has got to be a better way to get the message across than “defund the police,” but not we don’t really mean defund, we just want to use the word defund and assume people know that isn’t what we actually mean.

Anonymous wrote:Cancel culture. It’s an emotional (not rational) response.

There are serious scholars and activists who have put years into this idea. You just haven't been reading the right journals or listening the right folks.

Police "reforms" have been underway for a decade, and we still have to march in the streets because cops do things like pull suspects out of the police car so they can sit on their necks for 9 minutes.

How can you argue that good cops exist when three officers sat there and watched a man be murdered? What reforms would you suggest in that case?

Cancel culture. It’s an emotional (not rational) response.

Anonymous wrote:It means Donald Trump will get re-elected.

After the terrible Coronavirus handling and fallout Democrats had a great chance. But now that the loudest voices of the party are shouting to Defund the Police, firing people left and right from high profile jobs for saying something not ‘right’ or aligned properly with the BLM movement as seen by the social media police, and screaming racist by omission, things have gone off the deep end. DT will make a clear win if this movement continues on the current track. This is extremism on the opposite end of the spectrum

Doubt it.

It means Donald Trump will get re-elected.

After the terrible Coronavirus handling and fallout Democrats had a great chance. But now that the loudest voices of the party are shouting to Defund the Police, firing people left and right from high profile jobs for saying something not ‘right’ or aligned properly with the BLM movement as seen by the social media police, and screaming racist by omission, things have gone off the deep end. DT will make a clear win if this movement continues on the current track. This is extremism on the opposite end of the spectrum

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Anonymous wrote:“Defund the police” is something woke people like to say but haven’t really thought through.

No. What a lazy knee-jerk answer.

Here is a better place to start.

Anonymous wrote:Defund the police doesn't mean literally get rid of police and having no more police (a few mean that but most don't). It means that police are now responsible for areas that they didn't used to be, including mental health crises, homelessness, drug issues, school behavior issues, etc. that should be handled by other social services.

Defund the police means to shift some of the police budgets from the police to other social services, including community centers, youth leagues, social workers, home nurses and therapists, etc. Municipal funds can and should be reexamined and redistributed to invest in cities, not just tanks for police departments. What would you want to see to make your area a better place?

You clearly don't understand what a slogan is or the importance it has in gaining momentum for a cause. When you are chanting in the streets, no one is going to listen to a long explanation of what it is. Nor does it work for traditional media or social media or any place where people are barely reading or listening beyond a headline.

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Anonymous wrote:Minneapolis is going to defund the police , this is terrifying

What’s more terrifying is that a grown adult clearly doesn’t know the difference between defund and abolish.

It is more accurate to say that Minneapolis is abolishing the police department.

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Anonymous wrote:Minneapolis is going to defund the police , this is terrifying

Terrifying for whom? All the bad cops who are going to be unemployed?

The people who can’t leave. Everyone with any resources is going to leave that city. What a horrible horrible idea

Anonymous wrote:Minneapolis is going to defund the police , this is terrifying

Terrifying for whom? All the bad cops who are going to be unemployed?

Anonymous wrote:Minneapolis is going to defund the police , this is terrifying

What’s more terrifying is that a grown adult clearly doesn’t know the difference between defund and abolish.