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I live round the corner from a UK housing estate with a drugs problem. I very often deeply wish that 60-80% of my local tax money would go to the police. I oft
by dash2 6y ago
I live round the corner from a UK housing estate with a drugs problem. I very often deeply wish that 60-80% of my local tax money would go to the police.
I often also frankly wish that 10% of it would fund a Sharia-style hangman, but perhaps that is my inner misanthrope.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThe US drug war is an abject failure, despite very generous and ever-increasing funding. Why would you think it'd work substantially better in the UK? The point of "defund the police" is that that funding would be better used in treating the underlying causes of said drugs problem.