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originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Spacespider
This will all end badly..
There is always repercussions...
Wait and see what the real estate prices look like in a year in places with defunded police.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
a reply to: TheRedneck
Once upon a time, a long time ago there was a company called Consolidated Freightways. CF was so cool they started making their own trucks...Freightliner. But most importantly CF had a big time union until one day the company got tired of dealing with it and since Con-Way was solid enough and a non-union subsidiary...CF just some how “went bankrupt” and folded up overnight.
Everyone talks about the Teamsters...but unions are not and have not been worth jack in a long, long time in America. Well except every four years for pandering purposes.
originally posted by: Identified
a reply to: Blaine91555
Why don't you let people vote for the plan they want in their region rather than thinking the universal answer to every problem is Police?
If a city wants to defund and they get the votes then they will have to come up with unique solutions to their particular problems that the police were supposedly addressing before.
I live in a town (pop 30,000) about 25 miles outside Detroit and we haven't had a town PD in several years because it was disbanded after some corruption. We seem to be able to work with what is needed via the ballot box and within the Constitution. Crazy huh?
originally posted by: Identified
But most places in America the police are nothing but revenue generation and do little in the way of benefiting the society they serve. But they have people scared if their wittle jobs go bye bye then life as everyone knows it will end. That simple isn't true.
I live in a town (pop 30,000) about 25 miles outside Detroit and we haven't had a town PD in several years because it was disbanded after some corruption. We seem to be able to work with what is needed via the ballot box and within the Constitution. Crazy huh?
originally posted by: Identified
a reply to: TheRedneck
I ask: what are the police going to do when they show up? Guy shooting out the window is already gone and then what? They require witnesses to solve it for them? Why not cut out the middle man then?