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If the best, most principled people are leaving the job, then won’t the people left doing the job be the worst and least principled? Thus accelerating or conce
by newsclues 5y ago
If the best, most principled people are leaving the job, then won’t the people left doing the job be the worst and least principled?
Thus accelerating or concentrating the bad people left on the job.
- steveBK123 5y agoExactly. This struck me similarly as the problem with "defund". I've never seen an organization improved by lowering the average compensation and therefore recruiting standards!
- syops 5y agoI believe the defund crowd wants a dismantling of current policing structures and for new ones to be put in place. Police departments and union contracts within those departments are such that reform is virtually impossible without dismantling/rebuilding.
- steveBK123 5y agoThe problem with the defund crowd is they don't actually have a cohesive message of what they want and the branding is terrible, just a political hand grenade for the opposition. It runs the spectrum from "we just mean re-allocate budget toward community policing" to "no, we really do mean abolish police". LOL.
- syops 5y agoThe Minneapolis police department is beyond redemption. That department needs to be dismantled and replaced with a new system. In Minneapolis this was the goal with the initial "defund the police" mantra. A better term should be used because it's easy for opponents to use that term to mean something that was not originally intended.