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His main point is that defunding the police without an alternative that has been proven to reduce crime does the opposite. It increases crime over time. What h
by WheelsAtLarge 5y ago
His main point is that defunding the police without an alternative that has been proven to reduce crime does the opposite. It increases crime over time. What he outlines is true. I hear a lot about cutting the police but little to nothing about what will replace it as a proven way to reduce crime.
Also, all budgets need to increase just to keep up with inflation. So just because a budget is increased or it stays the same does not imply that it has not been cut. An increase of $39 mil. can only be properly evaluated if we know the size of the original budget and inflation.
- scrollbar 5y agoMaybe that's their point, but it's not convincing if it's using made-up information, which is my point. The inflation argument is not very convincing to me either. Both of those measures (inflation, budget) are objective facts that are absent from the article. Also "police budgets not quite keeping up with inflation is causing chaos in my neighborhood" is not very convincing.
- MisterBastahrd 5y agoHis main point is a straw man, since none of the "defunding" initiatives are as banal as simply taking money away from the entire picture. Defunding has always been about reallocating the money to help fix the root causes of criminal behavior in ways that don't involve a bunch of middle aged men in uniforms pretending to be the heroes of their own action movies.