I have zero interest in re-hashing the summer of 2020. Those who want to read up on our discussions on how to improve policing may do so. Many of us had well thought out and nuanced ideas on how to reform law enforcement in this country to help them avoid deadly conflicts, confiscate property that isn’t theirs, and help lead us to a more equitable and just society, things that go far over Al’s head.
If you want to read up on this, the thread is there but I have zero interest in being trolled into another idiotic conversation with a poster who used to be called something else in 2020 until we got tired of his schtick back then. Troll
So It should surprise no one that
@Al-O-Meter continues his same trolling ways in 2023 and took a paragraph from my post and quoted it here, shaving important context in order to irritate and troll rather than actually discuss.
Here’s my entire post:
You clearly don’t know what advocates for “defunding the police” want. Turning off Fox News and am radio would do you wonders. This is a pretty good article to get started:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/what-does-defund-police-mean.html
This gives a perspective on policing from around the world:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...raint-how-police-tactics-differ-around-world/
This thread from today changed my view on policing. I mean, seriously, how is this system acceptable?
The tweet above explains how minor problems can lead to escalations. A contributing factor to America’s police force being the deadliest in the world. Again, you won’t get this perspective from the right wing sources you consume:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
Finally, John Oliver had a good interview the other night explaining how defunding would allocate resources to help communities grow and be safer and healthier:
Ask yourself, why did intellectually honest heavy weight
@Al-O-Meter omit these parts of my post? Where did I advocate taking away police money? Did I advocate cutting their funding or did I advocate for learning the way police work in different countries to consider potential reforms that would make policing better in ours? There’s plenty of room for learning about different ideas and critically thinking about what might work best for our country. Some people here seem to fear education, nuanced ideas, and critical thinking and prefer indoctrination and trollery.
As a whole, “Defund the Police” was a stupid slogan. It wasn’t indicative of what reformers wanted or desired. “Reform the Police” works better. I believe that reasonable people from any political side can have legit concerns on police work in our country and can have good faith arguments on how to reform the police to best serve our communities in the 21st century. That is all I have to say about that.
Isn’t it nice to see crime go down instead of up, like it was under Trump? Isn’t it nice to have a president who supports law enforcement rather than asking his cultists to break the law and kill police? Isn’t it nice to have a president who unites all of us normal people who believe in law and order and who isn’t going to trial for 90+ felony counts? Who wants to return to those four years of corruption, crime and chaos that we saw from 2016-2020? I, like most normal Americans, certainly don’t!
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