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Tana Ganeva's avatar

Thank you!!!! My fallback is self-deprecation. Not sure if it's good humility or the Patriarchy. Who knows?

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Alex's avatar

This is an extremely stupid take.

Obviously, police shouldn’t do everything. Police should do what they are effective at, and not do what they aren’t effective at.

This isn’t particularly profound. Calling this concept ‘defunding the police’ is just silly.

You point to a woman who died because of police cowardice in not stopping a homicidal armed man. Should they have sent social workers or economists instead?

No, that was a case where an armed police response – or at least some sort of armed response, government or civilian – was necessary. The fact that the police were cowardly, useless, and poorly trained doesn’t change that.

Criminality isn’t always, or even usually, the result of poverty. And the same character traits that lead to senseless crimes also contribute to poverty. The police are certainly flawed, as any human organizations are, but ‘defund the police’ is an incoherent concept.

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