'Defunding' Police -- Seattle slashes budget for policing

That painting with kind of broad brush...but depending on the group, could be true.

 

Seattle cut the police budget by about 20%. That does not meet my definition of "defunding" the police. If the city executives decided that the police budget was bloated, that is their responsibility. In case folks haven't noticed, a lot of municipalities have had to cut spending because their tax revenues are in the tank because of Covid. The police are going to have to do the same kinds of things the rest of us are having to do; pulling that belt in a notch, a department policy akin to having one less donut a day.

 

Chain, Krispy Kreme, Winchell's and Dunkin Donuts have put a hit out on you. Beware of clowns with pies.

 

One less donut a day means they only get eleven. I would quit.

 

Fixed it for ya!

 

Agree there are to many police officers in America by far.

That said im not for funneling any more money into our socialist publuc education system.

 

That got me thinking.

Northern Ireland 382 PSNI officers per 100,000 inhabitants, how does America compare.

 

If we had FAR FEWER lawyers, and far harsher jails, we wouldn't need as many po-leese!

 

I can’t remember being abused by the police. Get a speeding ticket and some people think they are in a police state. I watched the protests (riots) all summer long and can definitely say I could never muster up the amount of restraint those officers did.

 

ask the Minneapolis city council how well defunding the police has worked out for them!!
Only a MORON would want to DELetE the police and then cheer on antifa and blm and all the other marxist outfits.
Give me your GUN too !! (why not?? hell you won't need it)

 

Being former LE you likely know that fear of jail usually isnt a deterent because criminsls by and large do not believe they will get caught.

 

Those were not peaceful protestors.

 

Bull, never realized that you were such a hard-line extreme left joe biden liberal. Rant on, comrade!

 

What about the hundred other videos showing the”peaceful protesters “ surrounding cop cars, throwing bricks,and burning store fronts. I get it you don’t like cops but don’t tell me I didn’t see what I clearly saw.To call these people freedom fighters is really a stretch and calling USA a police state is just bizarre.

 

Back when our founding fathers were living looters were hung. Ye good olde days.

 

Wrong, it will be the politicians!!
I know a few cops. The ones I've asked, they said they would turn in their badge before they would even go to the first house to collect someones firearm!!

I was making light of the Minneapolis council people. They should TURN in their guns.... they WON'T need them right? I mean if there are NO cops, then there will be NO crime, right??
Sure as hell not where I live. I left Minneapolis a LONG time ago. They were NUTS back then. I think they are trying to give San Fransicko a run for the money!!!

 

Dont get me wrong. The actions of about a dozen cops in differnt places were criminal and what kicked off this whole mess.
That said other than a few isolated instances blm and antifa protests havent been peaceful or anything resembling peaceful.

Honestly the only peaceful ones have been in smaller towns where the armed citizenry turned out in large numbers to assure things stayed peaceful.

 

Some folks want to destroy this country, and have the gall to call themselves patriots.