Posted on 02/13/2022 3:35:32 PM PST by Rummyfan
Remember ‘Defund the Police’? It was the slogan du jour of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was being hollered on every street during the protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin. In those riotous days in the summer of 2020, everyone seemed to be waving a placard or wearing a t-shirt demanding defunding. The entire in-crowd posted those three words on their social-media accounts. Even here in the UK, where cops aren’t armed and where the police-funding model is very different to America’s, the right-on lined up behind the vague, strange call for police forces to be starved of funds. A headline in the impeccably middle-class Guardian declared: ‘The answer to police violence is not “reform”. It’s defunding.’
Yet now, ‘Defund the Police’ seems to be a fast fading idea. You don’t hear it very much anymore. It might linger among the white antifa oafs who stomp around in cities like Portland and among well-to-do radical students on quiet, handsome campuses in the UK where there’s very rarely any need to call the cops. But on the streets, in politics, in the press, ‘Defund’ seems to have fizzled out. The old woke roar is barely a whimper now. And it isn’t hard to see why. This slogan has proven lethal. It has been an unmitigated disaster in numerous US cities. The cutting of cops’ budgets did not give rise to the new dawn of flowery peace and racial justice that the virtue-signalling defunders fantasised it would. On the contrary, it helped to stoke violent crime, further destabilise city life, and make life even harder for poor black and brown communities in particular. The lesson here is clear: wokeness kills.
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To article author guy:
Floyd was a convicted violent felon with multiple crimes on his police record. He used fentanyl and other illegal and life endangering drugs which he was on during that day. He had health problems resulting in circulation and breathing issues.
HE WAS NOT KILLED.
Black Lives Matter was pushing this idea. Since BLM would never push an idea that would hurt blacks, it follows that the resulting black deaths do not hurt blacks. It might be a good effect or simply neutral, but evidently more black deaths is not a bad effect.
Move to nationalize the police. They know local sheriffs won’t tow the national party line. Slowly make the local police irrelevant, crime through the roof, hey we need a national force.
Exactly. Classic Cloward-Piven pattern.
The Lesson here is how stupid America has become.
I would say about 60 years of the NEA (AKA Teacher’s Union) controlling schools has produced democrats, aka Marxist’s, that are, as you so clearly said, “just plain stupid”.
I don’t know how the US EVER survives it’s own electorate.
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