Defunding the police

[Aleeshah]

Defunding the police is very dumb, to stop further events of police brutality, cops have to get more and better training , cutting off resources will just leave more room for brutality with under funded and ill equipped officers running around.

 

[MarcATL]

 

[Zorro!]

Defunding the police is very dumb, to stop further events of police brutality, cops have to get more and better training , cutting off resources will just leave more room for brutality with under funded and ill equipped officers running around.

It's not complicated. These violent felons are restrained by the police from attacking the innocent and destroying businesses, so they don't want the police.

MINNEAPOLIS: Cold Feet On Police Defunding? “It turns out that Minneapolis City Council is incompetent as well as insane.”


The Minneapolis Charter Commission voted against having the defund proposal on the ballot in November, mainly because the City Council didn’t provide a real plan for a post-police public safety:

The current charter, which serves as the city’s constitution, requires Minneapolis to keep a police department with about three officers for every 5,000 residents.
Before the City Council can remake policing, they must amend the charter.
The City Council sought a charter amendment that would establish a Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention, which may or may not include law enforcement officers.

May, or May Not, ehhh?

Some members of the Charter Commission proposed their own amendment that would preserve the police department, but eliminate the current charter mandate to fund a specific number of officers. The commission rejected its own amendment while also extending their review of the City Council’s proposal.

Well, let's get rid of that pesky mandate.

Charter Commission Chairman Barry Clegg said the commission was not given enough time to study the City Council’s proposal before their deadline to get it on the ballot.
“The council came to us at the very last minute, and in fact, the council suspended its own rules to get in under the timeline,” Clegg said. “We said, ‘No, we’re going to do our job. Our job is to review this proposal, our job is to gather public input and that’s what we’re going to do.’”

Now that same City Council is getting cold feet about their own insanity:

The city council at the epicenter of the national unrest over policing and the death of George Floyd once promised to lead other cities to a police-free Utopia. Three months later, without any plans to accomplish it and with residents and investors balking at the prospect, the Minneapolis City Council’s abolition movement has “lost momentum,” the Star Tribune reports:

The Minneapolis City Council’s resolve to end the city’s police department has lost momentum, the result of the failure to get the question before voters in November and council members’ diverging ideas on the role of sworn officers in the future.

Such a shame

In the three months since nine council members pledged to end the department the city has experienced a surge in violent crime, another night of unrest and blowback from residents who felt they had been left out of the initial conversations about change.

Uhh, they 'felt' that way, because they were!

Some council members have remained consistent in their statements about policing, while others have softened their rhetoric, saying now that they do envision officers as part of any revamping of public safety.

So the vote to defund the police won’t actual defund the police, making the Minneapolis City Council, in addition to being insane and incompetent, a bunch of damn liars.

Minneapolis was one of the cities hit with still more rioting and parts of downtown remain boarded up.

How to destroy a prosperous downtown.

Hot Air further notes:

Perhaps the voters in Minneapolis should be talking about getting rid of City Council President Lisa [BinOnA] Bender and the rest of the city council. Even if some think abolishing the police is a good idea, Bender and her cohort are clearly incompetent at it. For the vast majority of the voters, however, the radical plan from Bender et al to leave them at the mercy of violent criminals without any hope of protection should be disqualifying.

Damn right

If any of these council members get re-elected, then Minneapolis deserves the impoverishment and collapse that will follow.