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Originally Posted by Dilligas
Firstly, my son is not a criminal, would not resist arrest if in that postion, would not pass conterfiet money. Those 4 cops were criminally wrong and like any criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. We need to weed out the 'bad cops', disband the police unions that defend and protect 'bad cops' from being fired and prosecuted. Cops hold no different importance than you, I, or any Black, Brown, Yellow, or White citizen. All lives matter. The answer is not to disband police departments and create open season for criminals, or viligianties.
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Disband means reallocate funds, not eliminate the police. Advocates are looking to downsize funding or to shift money from law-enforcement to other programs and issues that go directly to communities. Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza said the "defund the police" movement means investing "in the resources our communities need."
"So much of policing right now is generated and directed towards quality-of-life issues: homelessness, drug addiction, domestic violence," Garza said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "What we do need is increased funding for housing, we need increased funding for education, we need increased funding for quality of life of communities who are over-policed and over-surveilled."