Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Preview: Trump sits down with Chris Wallace for an exclusive interview" video.
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Quoting from Biden document.
"Federal funding to create a civilian corps of unarmed first responders such as social workers, EMTs, and trained mental health professionals, who can handle nonviolent emergencies including order maintenance violations, mental health emergencies, and low-level conflicts outside the criminal justice system, freeing police officers to concentrate on the most serious crimes. Fund initiatives to partner mental health professionals, substance use disorder experts, social workers, and disability advocates with police departments to respond to calls with police officers to better de-escalate interactions with citizens and when appropriate, to divert individuals to the social services they need."
The nonsense here is in the "creation of a civilian corps of unarmed first responders".
This is defunding or abolishing the police because it replaces the police with these "first responders".
This is a crazy idea because the police isn't there to treat the substance abuse person, the police is there to protect the people whom the substance abuse person is harming.
The idea of replacing policemen, who protects civilians, with the people focused on treating the insane people, is defunding the police.
You can call a social workers, but oh, no, the substance user has a gun, what will they do? Say pretty please?
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