Bad Idea to Defund Police Departments

[hawaiian cane]

In regards to this hot issue, doing so is a bad idea. In some US cities, due to shortages of social service workers, police officers are increasingly serving as first responders in incidents of mental health crisis and addiction, homelessness intervention and cases of juvenile status offenses. This definitely necessitates the search, hiring and training of new police candidates. With the current pandemic, more people could lose their jobs which could increase the numbers in the homelessness sector. It isnt the officer's job to be a social service worker.
Given the growing range of tools available to officers---from pepper spray to deadly force weaponry---
Do police departments hit the pause button to sort out whether the set training regimen for this is still adequate.
Also, with the potential threat of extremist groups acts of terror, the concern is if police officers are first to arrive, what chance do they have with their standard issue handguns against individuals with automatic weapons? Terrorist groups are continually upgrading their tactics & weaponry. Police departments should be able to do the same

 

[deuce1906]

In regards to this hot issue, doing so is a bad idea. In some US cities, due to shortages of social service workers, police officers are increasingly serving as first responders in incidents of mental health crisis and addiction, homelessness intervention and cases of juvenile status offenses. This definitely necessitates the search, hiring and training of new police candidates. With the current pandemic, more people could lose their jobs which could increase the numbers in the homelessness sector. It isnt the officer's job to be a social service worker.
Given the growing range of tools available to officers---from pepper spray to deadly force weaponry---
Do police departments hit the pause button to sort out whether the set training regimen for this is still adequate.
Also, with the potential threat of extremist groups acts of terror, the concern is if police officers are first to arrive, what chance do they have with their standard issue handguns against individuals with automatic weapons? Terrorist groups are continually upgrading their tactics & weaponry. Police departments should be able to do the same

agreed defunding police was a dumb slogan to begin with. Pure idiocy!!! REFORM ain’t so hard to ask for and really what we need. I wanted to smack someone upside the head when I first saw it...

 

[BreakingCane]

We all agree, although, many of the low IQ sheep on here argued that defund didn’t mean abolish, which their organizer confirmed was the intent.

 

[6882]

The training isn’t the problem, the lack of accountability with in the liberal city municipalities including their police dept’s is the problem. It’s not that these dirty cops don’t know any better, it’s that they think they can get away with doing what ever they want with out repercussion because that’s ultimately what’s happening from the top down in these liberal city municipalities. Unfortunately for these cops, unlike other municipal dept’s they don’t have the luxury of just pointing the finger at someone else when they screw up. The leadership in these areas just suck and that includes the elected police chief that appointed the cop that murdered george floyed to be a trainer despite his terrible record. If anyone is to be defunded, defund the salaries of the suck ass elected officials and their key appointees until they fix the issues that they were voted/appointed into to deal with in the first place or here’s an idea Ilan homar, change the union laws that keep allowing your dirty cops to get off scott free every time they’re investigated for breaking police policies.