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"Defund the police" is not a slogan. It's a policy demand. It's not designed to appeal to Midwestern life-long democrats. It's designed to fix a problem. The
by a_shovel 5y ago
"Defund the police" is not a slogan. It's a policy demand.
It's not designed to appeal to Midwestern life-long democrats. It's designed to fix a problem.
The activists promoting the demand are out of touch with huge swaths of Americans, but by symmetry, that means huge swaths of Americans are out of touch with the activists who, through their activism, research, and personal experience, know the nature of policing in America is closer to Brookside, Alabama than to what their Elementary school teachers told them about the police.
- mindslight 5y ago> "Defund the police" is not a slogan. It's a policy demand ... designed to fix a problem The "police" in this article are not a cost center, but rather a profit center. So, problem fixed? I agree that the cancerous police budgets consuming municipal budgets is a problem, but the even deeper problem is that they're not bound by the law they purport to uphold. "Defund" does nothing to advocate for legal accountability, which is the primary problem.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThere is no shortage of people all over the political spectrum who absolutely abhor the status quo of law enforcement in the US. You could have had the problem fixed already if you a) didn't go off half cocked with a stupid slogan that appeals to pretty much nobody b) thrown the conservatives a bone by abolishing the ATF or something.
- ashwagary 5y agoVideos of unarmed people constantly being murdered by police had no effect on the public after activists shouted "defund the police". Silly. I'm more inclined to believe corporate media convinced people the phrase was an issue.... most people dont have a problem with it, they were just given an opinion to parrot.