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> Instead of defund the police let’s fund public safety solutions that don’t involve law enforcement. This is literally what "defund the police" meant, just t
by ok_dad 4y ago
> Instead of defund the police let’s fund public safety solutions that don’t involve law enforcement.
This is literally what "defund the police" meant, just that the unfortunate naming caused people to do that thing where you read the headline and not the body. The initial push for "defund police" was to remove their responsibility for mental health calls and things of that nature and send specially-trained personnel to deal with that who had training to de-escalate and help those folks, without needing guns and such.
- aaron695 4y ago
- mikkergp 4y agoIt is not 'literally' what it means, because it's missing the important distinction of _not defunding the police_. Any definition of defund the police involves something along the lines of "divesting funds from police departments"(wikipedia) Yes I get your point about how defund the police was misinterpreted, by everyone and how really it's a great policy meant to do all the things I mentioned. But we should fund public safety without touching police budgets.
- naniwaduni 4y agoIt is named unfortunately because there are people who are absolutely literal about wanting what the name clearly says, and then maybe people who maybe aren't 100% on board with it but are okay with using piggy-backing off it to achieve their goals and aren't going to get in the way of it as long as their own goals are also achieved. To pretend otherwise is naive at best.