Posted on 05/09/2021 10:49:46 AM PDT by Mariner
Ask yourself, when was the last time a police force acted in accordance with your interests and expectations?
Did they protect your property or business from rioters and arson?
Are they allowing lawlessness to run rampant in one segment of society, while they stridently enforce laws that prevent you from protecting your interests?
What do YOU need them for? Anything?
When police forces refuse to enforce criminal property laws the middle class has no use for them. When they prevent you from protecting you and yours, they have become your adversary.
So, why not defund and disband?
The reason you have to have police is that without them the only “justice” is the vendetta. Tit-for-tat violence like the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud, or the clan wars of pre-Colonial American aboriginal peoples.
“Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord”. Think that through.
#2 I would have to buy ammo.
A friend from work wants big cities to remove their police forces to let everyone learn what real chaos is like.
““Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord”
Vengeance has nothing to do with protecting your property, family and life.
Do not choose to be a weak victim.
The only chaos those cops prevent today is enforcement of the law.
We’re watching America morph into SA. It won’t be long if this trend continues...
Agreed. They sit back and watch then arrest the law abiding people defending themselves.
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Until I do.
Did they protect your property or business from rioters and arson?
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There are no rioters in my community; there’s no one committing arson.
And that fact has very little to do with the police. Even if I lived in a shit hole like Minneapolis, I would not expect the police to prevent riots and arson. I would feel like I deserve the riots and the looting and the burning.
You need to understand that the police are just a representation of the citizens in their community. Just as people deserve their elected leaders, they also deserve the police department that supposedly serves and protects them.
So if you live in Minneapolis or Portland, you deserve the cops to stand around looking the other way when BLM is looting and rioting.
If the 2nd amendment was honored we wouldn’t need 80% of the police.
Why not defund the educators?
“Police are to enforce the law. The people who want to defund the police don’t want to enforce the ‘pot’ laws. They do not want to change the law.”
Ludicrous.
All of it.
Under what imagined scenario would you require a police intervention to protect your interests?
What is the likelihood they would do so?
I do think the term should be “De-militarize” the police.
Officers should live in the area they patrol, they should be expected to know the names and family histories of many of the people they serve. They should be part of the community and they NEVER EVER should refer to the people they serve as “civilians” or citizens”.
I can’t blame people in many communities for thinking that the police behave more like an occupying force than the equals of the teacher, postman or store clerk. And IMHO *ANY* measures against ANY occupying force are always justified.
Lots of policing seems to bear more resemblance to the way we patrolled Iraq rather than the way beat cops knew the neighborhood when I was growing up.
“So if you live in Minneapolis or Portland, you deserve the cops to stand around looking the other way when BLM is looting and rioting.”
Because those people do not deserve equal protection under the law?
Around here, the prosecutors and judges are "elected" using Dominion Voting Systems machines. No real voters are required.
The new Lefist prosecutor does not prosecute car thefts, burglaries, or shoplifting. Offenders, if they are identified at all, get a citation, similar to a traffic ticket.
It is all done in the name of "equity" - meaning if you are Black or Hispanic, you skate. Even if White, you will only face a misdemeanor charge.
The results are what you might imagine. Car thefts are up about four times the rate of previous years. Burglaries have doubled. Data for shoplifting incidents are "unavailable".
Local police are not happy with this. Even so, they will follow orders from the political authorities.
Police are nothing more than unionized government employees with guns.
The type of police that we’re shown by the show dragnet are long long gone.
Equal protection under the law? How is that possible when a majority of citizens set up autonomous zones? When they willingly elect leaders who deny them equal protection under the law? When there are people like you who want to defund the police and return to anarchy and vigilantism?
Isn’t it ironic that someone like you would be arguing for equal protection under the law.
Yes. It’s all about who controls the police, Is it going to be the genocidal Nazis that run the federal government and leftist hell holes, or are the people going to have a say through the sheriffs?
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