Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Defunding the Police

I actually don't know of anyone in my circle who advocates eliminating the police. The alternative would be people policing their own lives and communities, and that would probably not end well... though some libertarian types would likely embrace the idea. Especially in rural areas where it could actually happen.

I don't think there's anyone in my circle who disagrees with the assessment that the police have, in many instances, become overly authoritarian and militarized. And that's not a statement that looters shouldn't be dealt with. When I came up they were shot on sight. And that violent civil disobedience shouldn't be dealt with as criminal activity. By that I mean I've been unjustly searched and held by police. Not a big deal in some sense in that I'm law abiding. A big deal in that I know somebody is getting over on me, and basically just my time and self respect is being squandered.

Also, it seems re-purposing police for social tasks in the community is probably a reasonable idea. One example. There was a death threat at my place of employment. It was not an active threat. It was anonymous. Students do this. When the officer came out to take a report, and that's all there was to do, take a report, I found out that this is what he does all day. Document employee threats. All day, every day. WTF. Yea. Something of a social worker would be a good idea.

Another example is when I found my late wife dead at home. I'm not sure there really needed to be four officers pouring over my property. I suppose there is the possibility of a homicide. But mostly it was hours and hours of documenting domestic details, medical history, getting an inventory of her massive amount of medications together. Being a liaison with her primary, with the funeral home. Real social work. She was a remarkable woman, a real angel, so it went as well as it could. Real grace. A different person would have made it horrible.

A friend of mine from my faith community was a former police officer. She quit after some 10-15 years in service after killing her second person in a domestic violence call. People in our circle misunderstood her. They thought she quit because of the two kills in duty, both of which were ruled clear and good in all ways. Both DV calls. She quit because she felt the job was making her cynical about humanity. She told me one day how every day you are meeting people in the worst situations, somethings the worst of their lives, and everyone is lying to you. Even the "good guys". Everyone is trying to get over on you.

She felt she was getting really dark. And she felt there was no respite. She said she would have been fine with DV calls and domestic disturbance calls all day every day if there was regular time to back away from it and do something constructive. She called it "social work" and that was like 15 years ago. To be able to be in uniform and be in the community but not on the defense or being reactive to a situation. Working with youth, DV victims, whatever. She said it would have helped her cynicism and jadedness, and if she could have done that every so often, she could have stayed in service indefinitely.

Your bullshit is hilarious. Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters are not terrorists. Trump has killed far more people with his botched handling of the coronavirus, and he's getting ready to kill his supporters with his upcoming rallies (coronavirus seeding events). Which ones do you plan to go to?

The CHAZovites ganged up on a street preacher & choked him out yesterday. Someone posted a video on Twitter. So much for non-brutality. If they were a police force they’d be up there with Nazis.

Gee, imagine that. Americans are opposed to turning the entire nation into a much worse case of Southside Chicago. Who would have thunk it?

I agree Bud but most Americans agree with reorganising the police!!

President Trump was installed by Putin because Putin wanted all this civil trouble in America...the Cold War ain't over my friend...and it looks like the old Ruskies and China are gonna have the last laugh..

They want to impose their own views of law and order instead. They are so dysfunctional it is not pretty at all.

They want a federal police force that they can control .

I support Trump!!

Whatever article you copied and pasted this from had a George Soros conspiracy. 🤣

(((Soros)))!

Goddamn did that guy fuck the brains of you folks 🤣

Oh no, terrorists in Seattle!

Defunding police is stupid, imo - but you're also thoroughly misrepresenting people's various positions on that as well.

I think their first mistake was labeling it "defunding the police" when what they were actually calling for was reducing funding to the police and re-appropriating the monies to create services that would lessen the workload of police.

To have an opinion on that I would have to see the details and it would vary greatly from one jurisdiction to another.

I disagree that it is about dismantling law and order or erasing America. If you read up on where our original police came from and look at how much is spent in some cities on them today their value can be questioned.

A poll from Ispos also found;
82% of Americans want to ban police from using chokeholds, 83% want to ban racial profiling, and 92% want federal police to be required to wear body cameras.

It also found that 89% of Americans want to require police to give the people they stop their name, badge number and reason for the stop, and 91% support allowing independent investigations of police departments that show patterns of misconduct.

Seventy-five percent of Americans want to support “allowing victims of police misconduct to sue police departments for damages.”

Extremists want the police gone, citing Camden as an example (although Camden's "police" have re-unionized and it's still one of the most dangerous cities in the nation). More left leaning folks want police money given to social programs, unaware that 90%+ of that money will end up in the "general fund."

If they want their own "city state", fine. Shut off their utilities (water, power, cell service, etc.); cease all shipments of goods, food, fuel; and halt ALL services (emergency, social services, etc.); and arrest & imprison anyone who leaves their "city state".

See how long they last without any government to leech upon...

We also overwhelmingly support single payer health care, but that has yet to affect policy, so suck it up, bitches.

@snowbelt [quote]Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters are not terrorists. [/quote]

Barely - Your attention to detail needs some work. I continuously referred to looters and rioters.

Good boy ..... here's a biscuit.

I wonder why they go to the extremes when they could just simply get rid of laws that protect the cops like how the police unions mainly protect the corrupt police in the first place and that would like, cut the problems nearly in half.

I don't trust people who go to extremes, they have other things in mind.

I think you should change your media diet. 😅

'defund' is an empty slogan by a leaderless movement. after weeks of headline grabbing BLM has produced nothing but empty rhetoric. 'defund' is bullshit