Quote (InsaneBobb @ May 31 2022 08:47pm)
I support the defunding of politicized police.
In a proper community aspect, the community elects it's sheriff. The sheriff sees to the hiring and firing and training of officers. They're the person in charge. Somehow, the system has been magically corrupted, where all funding has to go through some made up "Police Commissioner" title, or something similar, and a community does not get it's police funding unless they obey the edicts of said appointed official. Appointed by whom? The mayor/governor, of course!
I'm 100% in support of community police if they're community police. Overly funded state and federal enforcement is corrupt and politicized. So when departments like Portland went and slashed it's funding, the best officers who believed in their oath to uphold both the state and federal constitution who were least likely to bow to the funding pressures of the bleating fucking sheep of a mayor of Portland found themselves seeking new career opportunities. The most... loyal... Members of the force to the new agenda maintained their positions. And even many of them started to quit after a while when the edict coming down from the mayor was that they couldn't return fire even when violent rioters threw Molotov cocktails at them, directly attempting to burn them alive. Now, there's a "refunding" effort, and a huge portion of the laid off/fired/quit police that won't return. Their paychecks, benefits, and retirements are held in the hands of these shifty fucking politicians, they've already been fucked, and told not to respond even in defense of their own lives, why should they come back to work?
The "Defund Movement™" was never about removing police. It was about removing community police who actually give a shit about the community itself, and replacing them with political police, who're merely private armies for the politicians to whip you into line with. And these fucktards in Uvalde managed exactly that, when they actively detained parents who's children were being murdered. And the police involved have already told that they were ordered to stand down. They've already told to treat it more like a hostage situation. An active fucking shooting. That's more than a mistake.
ah the new GOP gymnastics around policing.
It would be easier if you just said the cops did a bad job.
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