no, not at all.
it's also dumb because it's oblivious to pretend that what people are discussing is how much money should be allocated to police budgets.
I agree with you but I'm sure for very different reasons. I agree in that I don't think the conversation is about how much money is allocated for police budgets. I think the good faith discussion is how those dollars are spent, now much much of them are being spent. There are a lot of very intelligent and reasonable people who think police budgets should spend less money on further militarizing the police, and would instead like to see those dollars spent on things like meaningful and effective training for the police on handling high stress situations, especially training specific to the local communities they “serve”. To have social workers and crisis counselors available to help de-escalate situations that would otherwise be exacerbated by some racist bad person with a god complex drawing a gun on them and barking commands.
And maybe some of those afore mentioned dollars being set aside for actual accountability of the police officers, as in unaffiliated panels to review incidents like alleged police brutality and unjustified uses of force, rather than just blanket qualified immunity for anyone with a badge.
But that conversation can’t happen bc bad actors know that “defund the police” is a dirty word so they’ll just deflect to that bc they don’t want to have an earnest conversation about much needed police reform and they’ll just say OH SO WHAT? YOU WANT TOTAL LAWLESSNESS??!?
But sys I’m sure you don’t agree with my stance so wtf are you even on about bc I’m trying to guess and for the life of me I have no idea what point you’re trying to make?
