Apparently it’s much easier to completely deconstruct half of the criminal justice system and money will solve the problems of society. ( Log Out /  None of the current board members are from the City of Camden. Thanks. If you’re worried about breathing something lethal, stay home and stop spreading covid-19. Police. Police. Here in AZ, mere miles from my tony Scottsdale neighborhood, Dion Johnson, a 28 year old black man was killed during a traffic stop, the same day George Floyd was killed. But the need to explain the meaning behind the wording comes with its own set of critics. Thank God we did not do that,” she added. If you actually look at the timeline, you’ll see something interesting. (Factcheck). They could replace two crusty, self-justifying ones with two younger, trainable cops on bikes. “If you’re explaining, you’re losing, and there’s a lot of explaining going on,” Meghan McCainMeghan Marguerite McCainFrank Luntz: Polling profession 'done' after election misses: 'Devastating to my industry' Former McCain adviser says Biden flipping Arizona could be late senator's 'revenge' Joy Reid ripped for 'Uncle Clarence' reference to Justice Thomas: 'Disgusting' MORE, a right-leaning commentator said on ABC’s “The View.”. It’s gotten this high in the wake of 9/11, even though places like Minneapolis don’t need to be arming themselves for a war. If they may be held accountable for killing citizens or for excessive use of force / bad judgment, they don’t want to do the job. As to “most of the worst cities” being run by Democrats, let’s not mix up cause & effect. Use a scarecrow! I’m all for more training and increasing attention to the proper investment of public funds…..but, I fear the willful ignorance….of some of what is being proposed….more than I do many other things. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html, “And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.” And for those who feel that ‘defund’ is too extreme sounding, I will remind you that many activists who have been thinking about all of this for the longest would say ‘defund’ is too gentle–they are using ‘abolish.’. The slogan became an easy target for President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden claims a 'mandate' to govern, calls for end to 'partisan warfare' Mark Meadows tests positive for coronavirus Georgia Senate race between Perdue, Ossoff heads to runoff MORE and other Republicans who have seized on the wording in an attempt to paint Democrats as supporting lawless communities. That gives the new department the advantage of a much broader tax base with which to fund it, but it deprives the citizens being policed of any voice in how the department is run. The for-profit incarceration systems in this country should be abolished, and replaced by something with no profit motive. This is a fact the trainer shared in the aforementioned training. (I’ll admit the irony in me writing this, and will clarify that this piece isn’t oriented towards those well-educated in this questions; it’s oriented towards responding to troubling critiques.). It validates that we are a nation with resources. Problem solved. . With respect to tear gas: very well, we can be more specific and say ‘CS gas’ which is unequivocally a banned form of chemical warfare under the Geneva convention. Watch “Breaking the Cycle” to see how the Halden Prison in Norway works to humanize its prisoners. But can we choose a different word? When pollsters spelled out the broad goals of the movement -- reducing police budgets to shift money toward education, housing and mental health -- overall support increased by just 5 percentage points, to 39 percent, suggesting the slogan isn't weighing things down very much. — Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) June 8, 2020. She was a 5 ft, 100 lb woman in the inner city. (Also, we need to quit buying these BS excuses like “he had an underlying condition.” We ALL have an underlying condition called mortality, but we don’t just spontaneously die without the violent act committed on us). Why are we applying deadly force for non-violent crimes? Public service unions in general are a bad idea. If we cared so much, would we be willing to see “recreational” alcohol as a problem?,We won’t touch the uncomfortable part of all this, morals, values, family structure, a church community (not my church, any church/Synagogue/ Mosque, etc). Many good officers will leave if it is removed. Plans to defund the police usually entail this step. Minneapolis’s city council has said it intends to dismantle the police department, but only after a year-long process to plan a transition into something new. Just like everyone else, I don’t want cops to be killed in the line of duty, but we use cops for things that they aren’t really trained for, we apply severe consequences to the poor, and we create crimes when we treat financial and mental issues like crimes. Given the inequities in incarceration, we need to remove the stigma of prior incarceration. BYU (and by extension, the Church) have been fighting tooth and nail to keep their department certified, even though they were shown to mishandle privileged law enforcement records and bungle rape investigations, and continue to insist on having full police authority (to make arrests, traffic stops, access public law enforcement databases, etc.) He wasn’t even a protester. One thing he said is that the police are being asked to do too much—like taking care of people who are mentally ill, policing schools etc. Or just quit policing dumb stuff altogether. But I am saying that we can identify something troubling in the framing of many critiques that have come out over the last few days. * You won’t have the police having to deal with every little complaint. In the ensuing lawsuit, the defense attorney for the officer kept saying the man was being detained as a criminal suspect, but there was no crime. This is a landmark case because prior to this, police officers could only be charged with a crime if they were proven to have malicious intent, but the new standard handed down by the Supreme Court was whether their behavior was “reasonable” for most police officers. – The In Between. You know, just done," he said. Police inattention is noticed by the criminal element. The “statements of facts” being made that they are not just correlated with worse responses, more violence, etc. Adding a comment here so that I can more easily search for and find it in 2 or 3 years’ time. Imagine you are very poor, get a speeding ticket, can’t afford to pay, court persuades you to plead guilty then sends you to prison for 3 months. Imagine being the person with the gun. Author and Twitter goddess Gabrielle Blair shares some additional salient points: What about rape? This week has moved me from a position of ‘Policing needs substantial reform’ to ‘Many (most?) I am not in favor of defunding the police, but want to outline how proposed policy changes have potential to better serve the public. I have also learned of multiple cases where the sole cop who *did* try to deescalate or intervene in excessive force was the only cop fired, on the grounds that they endangered their colleagues.

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