Comments by "@level Joe" (@leveljoe) on "ABC News"
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@kylealexander7024 I don't think you understand what will happen if you defund the police. In the end it doesn't matter, it's not going to happen anyway.
It's not a like flipping a switch and boom, the police are defunded.
Every city, county, state, and the federal government would need to agree it, and that is not going to happen. The masses want law and order (at least the feeling of it).
If your politicians take that away they dont stand a chance of getting reelected.
The police are not going away.
The police unions are not going away as long as we have politicians selling out to the special interest groups (unions) to get their votes.
So the bad cops remain.
Let's say you could get the union to let the bad cops go...
Ok, we still have the "fog of war" and mistakes will still be made unless you hamstring the police.
Police are not going to do the job if you take away their ability to defend themselves. No one would want the job because cops will be killed in droves.
To prevent the next Tamir Rice incident (I hope you're familiar with the case because if you're not this will not make any sense) police must wait to react to keep their jobs, and delay the application of deadly force. If police can't react instantly to what seems to be a deadly weapon then they die from waiting to be sure it is a real weapon when it actually is a real weapon. If they react they're fired, if they don't react they die. That's a hell of a choice.
The world sucks and I wish it didn't. Violence is the tool of criminals so police need to be able to stop it in action and that also sometimes means using deadly but justified force without being able to ask questions first.
Don't get me wrong, what happened to George Floyd should have never happened and the police officer who knelt on his neck should never be a free man, but what if we treat him (the cop) like your sister was.
Maybe he has PTSD or some other poor excuse for poor life choices.
It'll be his defense you just watch.
He'll say "I have a recognized medical condition and I couldn't stop myself."
The dregs of society...
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