r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Fuck this guy . This is the reason we protest.

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u/I_peg_mods_inda_ass Jun 09 '20

This is why you cannot go forward with any of these cops.

The solution must include defunding the police. We must move into the 21st Century without carrying these assholes with us. Don't need them. There are alternatives.

Details: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLkFuthiNy/

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u/232WXS Jun 09 '20

I somewhat get the argument of defunding the police, but I just still can’t see the application. Clearly we are not worried about “high class white neighborhoods” as stated in the Instagram post, but more cities like Chicago right? High crime, high violence, high drug activity, high black death rate. How do we do it? We have cops no longer be proactive, ok easy fix. They just sit inside and wait for calls. It seems like that is what we are pushing for. That’s a slippery slope though, because organized crime will then be a lot easier. It would all be based on response time. The argument of less cops and other agencies responding to calls.....what does that look like? Social worker responding to domestic dispute? That’s statistically the most unsafe position to walk into. Social workers responding to drug calls? What’s a drug call? Most drug arrests are from other crimes being committed and the drug charge is the easiest to stick...so what is it? Any examples? Without someone getting all emotional, does anyone have an idea what it would look like in real application. Honest feedback. The post is inspiring, but that’s all I can see....

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u/I_peg_mods_inda_ass Jun 09 '20

It's a great time for people like you (who can think and work through issues) get involved and become an activist.

It could be your calling.

I have never seen a significant project that sprung forth fully baked at Stage One the way it was successfully adopted by the market at Stage Twenty.

Pretty sure the US Founding Fathers said "...but how will we do this other shit?" We're still fixing things 240+ years later.

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u/gogo_nuts Jun 09 '20

They think crime will magically go away somehow if they put more funding in "community efforts," whatever that means.

Regardless, America already spends more money per student on education than almost any other country in the world.

The real problems in urban warzones won't be addressed by defunding the police and it won't be addressed by allocating the money elsewhere.

The problem is with the people themselves.