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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
Regardless of what amazingly well thought out and deep meanings are hidden beneath the tagline "Defund The Police", the thing that was being voted for would have cut police funding by a third.
Luckily, the councilors saw sense when the police decided to show them what a defunded police force would look like, and went on semi-strike, and of course crime skyrocketed. |
If you choose to purposefully misunderstand what 'defund the police' is and knowingly use that misunderstanding to push a flawed agenda, you are choosing wilful ignorance to justify an increasingly pronounced bias.
The problem is that you're seeing this through a UK lens which the police are underfunded and not through the US lens where the police receive enough of a budget for equipment that would make an army general blush but not enough invested in proper training or background checks which is why the US police shoot more people dead than in any other equivalent country.
Any officer that would choose to strike over such a thing, and more likely over security measures to try to dissuade them from murdering first and asking questions later, well, they're probably some of these 'rare' bad eggs we're told about. Putting people in harm's way to use the crime statistics to justify spending in the wrong places doesn't strike me as something a moral person would do.