Is hating the police justified or just a political narrative?
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In the last few years, US law enforcement has been in the spotlight but a rather dim light in the eyes of some.
Some are saying the police need to be defunded, and some are saying the police need to be abolished completely.
After last years death of George Floyd seemed to pour gas on the already lit fire. A push for defunding the police was the battle cry.
Some places such as Minneapolis have gone the route to defunding their police, but have soon regretted their decision as crime rose following the action.
Some also say that police are racially biased but according to statistics that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I say this as a white man in America whose stepson is a police officer — as a rule of thumb, the police cannot be trusted. A significant number of departments have been infiltrated by white supremacists and/or militarized to the point where they're little more than paramilitary militias.
The police forces in America as a whole need to be demilitarized and the white supremacist elements need to be purged. If reducing the ridiculously high levels of funding many police departments have (seriously — more than half of the city of Los Angeles's budget goes to the police department) is what it takes to accomplish this, then that's what we need to do.
Of course, the police also need to have the resources and authority they need to perform their legitimate duties. Somehow, we must find a way to balance this out.
