Dave The Web Guy
A Warning About Defunding As an Excuse
06/23/2020
As we demand that more $$$ go to social programs that improve the substantive conditions for all lower wealth, and more crucially, lower opportunity people, we have to be careful not to let police by wayward claim that they are merely bending to the public will and diminished resources, abandon law and order among the vulnerable.
Sensitive people, senior citizens, women open to exploitation, honest living people in public housing units, and many others, will all be subject to lives of terror and subjugation in a world where police leave them stranded with less presence and less assertion.
As it is, I have always felt as a way to cope with budget restrictions and the mere "work of it", police invent an inability to patrol or act in poor neighborhoods. Police brutality, which you could look at as a twisted form of cost control, needs to be fixed. But it can't be used as a convenient excuse to do the exact opposite where providing a baseline security is concerned.
She has a point. And I would add, don't let everything that is happening become an exclamation point for those who believe that "minorities do it to themselves" so that walking away is that much more just.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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