“Defund Police” is a detractive rallying cry of protesters and reformers, who are fed-up with the extreme police brutality we’ve seen displayed far too often. RELAX! This mantra really means ‘scaling budgets back some’, and reflects a growing momentum to reallocate more resources to agencies providing community services, such as violence-prevention efforts, youth-homelessness programs, opioid taskforces & mental-health response teams to better manage community needs. Police forces have been stretched too thin, having officers respond to problems that they’re not always adequately-trained to resolve: growing mental-health issues, school-behavior problems, dogcatcher, etc. Allow cops to focus on potentially-violent crimes, but recognize that there are systemic-problems that must be addressed & reformed. Policing policies are largely set at the local level. Lynda Garcia, Leadership Conference of Civil & Human Rights said, “A budget is a moral document, and where cities invest their money speaks to their values, and we have power to make changes”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jun 13 2020
The D-word; We have more power than we realize to affect changes.
“Defund Police” is a detractive rallying cry of protesters and reformers, who are fed-up with the extreme police brutality we’ve seen displayed far too often. RELAX! This mantra really means ‘scaling budgets back some’, and reflects a growing momentum to reallocate more resources to agencies providing community services, such as violence-prevention efforts, youth-homelessness programs, opioid taskforces & mental-health response teams to better manage community needs. Police forces have been stretched too thin, having officers respond to problems that they’re not always adequately-trained to resolve: growing mental-health issues, school-behavior problems, dogcatcher, etc. Allow cops to focus on potentially-violent crimes, but recognize that there are systemic-problems that must be addressed & reformed. Policing policies are largely set at the local level. Lynda Garcia, Leadership Conference of Civil & Human Rights said, “A budget is a moral document, and where cities invest their money speaks to their values, and we have power to make changes”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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