Defunding Police falls in a heap.

Spiked.

http://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/12/the-deadly-consequences-of-defund-the-police/

*… Numerous black New York officials counselled against Defund. One described this woke belief in trimming cop numbers as a form of political ‘colonisation’ pushed by white progressives. Another said it had the whiff of ‘political gentrification…*

The question being asked at last is :
*… – how was this ‘bullshite’ allowed to ‘destroy cities’?…*(quote).

We all know the answer to that one!

Dan

So far, touch wood, our nutters haven’t started on that rot. In the US, fewer police has meant more trouble for poor Afro- Americans: the very people the nutters claim to be concerned about.

Dan,

Looks like defunding the police could take on here.

Defunding essential services is nothing short of mad ! What's needed is to bring salaries & wages to a level which makes it possible to maintain costs & prices at a static level for at least ten years. That'll result in a healthy economy for generations simply because future generations will naturally adopt the mentality needed.
The 'Growth" mentality is only pushed by the economically inept !

Hi there DIVER DAN & TTBN...

Any notions of defunding the police is sheer madness in my humble opinion. Like 'em or hate 'em they are a necessary evil, and without them anarchy will reign supreme. I think both of you know I was in the job for many years and I'm the first to admit there are many (entrenched) problems in the Force, including illegality and individual misfeasance.

The only other apparatus we have to maintain law & order is to induct the Military into the job. And when necessary, declare martial law. If this was done, general policing would look like a kiddies afternoon tea party. Under martial law the Military don't muck around let me tell you.

O sung wu,

You are probably thoroughly browned off by this defund nonsense after your years of service.

I don't recall any of our local idiots calling for it and, while nothing and nobody is perfect, I think Australia's police forces do pretty well by us.

Around 60-70 US police officers, where this defund rubbish is rife, are murdered in the line of duty each year. Many of them black officers, whose lives apparently don't matter to the BLM as much those of black civilians.

All I can say is that people wanting to defund police anywhere are morons who have never needed assistance from police.