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Originally Posted by airstreamingypsy
FYI, Defund never meant get rid of, it was a stupid choice of words to describe what they wanted, which was to reallocate some funds to hire mental health and social workers to relieve the police departments and free them to fight crime.
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Of course all that was explained, in detail when the issue first came up a bunch of years ago. But some people don't WANT it to mean that. They WANT it to mean what they've assigned it to mean, so that they can raise their fists in righteous indignation about "those people."
Meanwhile, back on topic:
I see posters here being all fist-raisey and righteously indignant, going on the hyperbolic defense of "oh sure, let's just have a cop on every corner, put them in your house to make sure you're not doing anything wrong, turn this into a nanny state and big brother" yada yada yada.
There's a difference between "the police in this area are not visible enough, another dozen shifts added to the tri-county area would be helpful" and "put a nanny-cam in your bathroom."
Maybe if we could accept those differences and approach the problem pragmatically instead of emotionally, this community (in general) could come up with solutions.