> "Defund the police", "stop and frisk", "trickledown economics", and "Big gubberment bad" are all stupid ideas. "Defund the police" is an incredibly stupid na

> "Defund the police", "stop and frisk", "trickledown economics", and "Big gubberment bad" are all stupid ideas. "Defund the police" is an incredibly stupid name given to a collection of ideas, some of which are genuinely great ideas. One example is that police are being asked to insert themselves into situations where they are not trained or prepared, all because we simply don't have any other agency to contact. We could instead create community services where mental healthcare professionals and social workers can be dispatched to deal with situations like people in the middle of a mental healthcare crisis, welfare checks, or even literal children throwing tantrums, instead of sending armed police officers who don't know what they're doing. Police and EMS can be dispatched as well if the situation is dangerous, or people are injured, but most of the time they won't be needed at all. Since police departments won't be dealing with those issues anymore it frees up a lot of their time and resources so money can be diverted from police budgets to fund these new community services without impacting the ability of police to deal with criminals, and police can now focus their attention on actual police work without being distracted by non-law enforcement tasks. That way the people still get the help they need and police spend less time shooting autistic people, or pepper-spraying 9 year old girls.