Posted on 09/16/2020 8:44:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) laid out the House GOP’s Commitment to America and said that on policing, they will invest $1.75 billion “for police training, community policing, teaching them when to use their weapon and what type of weapon to use.” And an additional 500,000 body cameras. McCarthy also accused Democrats of wanting to defund the police and stated, “We saw what happened on the streets of L.A.”
McCarthy said, “We’re not going to defund the police. We’re actually going to add $1.75 billion for police training, community policing, teaching them when to use their weapon and what type of weapon to use. But more importantly, we’re going to add 500,000 body cameras.”
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Oh God, make this idiocy stop...
We began to throw Fed money at local policing during the Clinton years. It was a bad idea then, a bad idea now.
They can spend 50 trillion if they want but it won’t change the fact that Saint Floyd died of a drug overdose.
1.75 billion? Where does that figure come from? Why not 1.68 billion? What is going to cost 1.75 billion? Salaries? Classrooms? Thousands of new bureaucrats? Who is going to teach this stuff? Psychologists? What proven system exists to achieve the result? Are the same incompetent fools going to get raises and even more power?
This is just worthless garbage invented out of whole cloth.
I’d rather have him get off his fat ass and help Trump
I don’t know. If they fund dash and body cameras that are locked on for the duration of a shift, mandate the use thereof, and fund the necessary storage for said recordings, that would probably be a huge improvement.
Cuck.
The changes that are required for the greatest improvement to police interactions require little to no investment.
1) Require that each LEO maintain $1 Million in personal liability insurance. See #3 from the cost section
2) Require that all SWAT teams be organized under the local elected Sherrif
3) Require all “no knock” raids be signed off by a Judge that verifies that no other option is available and that there is a risk to life and limb of a citizen
Cost section - Actions requiring some funding
1) equip all cars and/or officers with cameras
2) elect a citizen as a review board member for all internal affairs investigations
3) create a state / national database of LEOs that have recorded complaints against them. This would prevent a poor officer moving from one police organization to another.
Seems to me that these actions would be more effective and cost a whole lot less than a billion dollars
Typical. Will they ever learn that they cannot get good press by signaling their virtue? It never ever works, it just gives wins to the dems.
What needs reforming is criminal behavior and the judges who let the monsters back out onto the streets.
More effective having a advertising campaign on football and basketball games telling black people that they should not resist arrest. Oh. I forgot. Common sense is considered racist.
No insurance company will issue a liability policy to a police officer for on the job actions. Even if one did it would probably cost them at least $100,000 per year. Municipalities already buy liability insurance for their government services.
More effective having a advertising campaign on football and basketball games telling black people that they should not resist arrest.
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It should be SOP for EVERY school in the country - regardless of who runs it - to show the Chris Rock ‘How to handle a police stop’ at least once a quarter.
Of course, if WE use C Rock, ‘they’ will destroy him like they did B Cosby (funny after all those years NOBODY ‘remembered’ anything until Bill started telling the truth about no Husband/Father in house led to disaster in Black families etc etc)
Yes. But it wouldn’t cost $1.75 billion. That’s my point. They just want to throw money at a problem, but no one actually has a workable solution. First find a workable solution, then figure out what it costs.
Assuming they wanted to issue a camera to every officer in America, with 100TB of storage per officer plus staff to maintain the systems and correctly curate the recordings, it could actually add up to that pretty quickly.
If so and it essentially eliminated the majority of potential crooked cops while saving the careers of good cops from baseless accusations, it would deprive the left of a lot of their causes for recent rioting and remove support. I’d say it would be cheap at twice the price.
Couldn’t they just have some Team Glock trainers stop by to help them with their marksmanship? :)
Been watching some of the You Tube videos etc of police stops and it appears though the camera is running, the sound doesn’t come on until they turn it on??
Also seems to me that they tend to stall by ‘befriending’ the driver and gaining his confidence (appears they are waiting for a dog or back up on a lot of occasions) AND, in my opinion - when they decide to turn the ‘ran the red light’ into an investigation, the tone considerably changes and now ‘MY new BEST FRIEND’ is suddenly ORDERING me out of my car, grabbing at me AND if the driver tenses up or squirms ‘they’ now have probable cause to charge him with resisting, even though they baited the driver.
Also seems like the body cams don’t ‘phase’ some of the more aggressive cops. (Guess why ‘review boards are necessary)
As to ‘releasing’ the tapes, it should be done almost immediately - let the chips fall where they may - as if there is a delay of even a few hours, those that are ‘offended’ can and will claim doctoring.
Let the ‘folks’ see Johnny really is an arse and pulled a gun on the cops OR let the ‘Chief/Sheriff’ see that his employee is nothing but a loud mouthed agitator that is authorized to carry a gun and take appropriate action IF that is the case.
Police reform should mean hiring more cops. Preferably ex-marines every one.
blah blah blah.. eGOP puppets still abound. California has more than one chain to shed.
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