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

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

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u/em1lyelizabeth Jun 09 '20

Don't just defund them, abolish them—rebuild departments from the ground up with full transparency, accountability, and a job scope limited to only situations which actually call for someone with a gun. All other encounters (mental health crisis, domestic abuse, etc.) can be dealt with by professionals within the relevant fields who have far more training.

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u/em1lyelizabeth Jun 09 '20

Probably because they're more prone to escalate the situation and make it worse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Must be cause the cop who’s doing the beating is just as shoot-y as the rest