Posted By: BigPapasan
Re: Poetic Justice??? . . . . .No; Poetic License - Yes. Half-truths by half-wit righties...
CDL: "Minnesota Defund the Police Democrat organizer..."
She IS from Minnesota.
She IS a Democrat.
She is the Second Vice Chairwoman for the Democrat-Farmer-Labor party.
She is NOT a Defund the Police organizer. CDL's use of the word "organizer" harkens back fifteen years to when righties were branding Obama as a "community organizer" as if that was something evil.
The woman was tweeting her support for the Minneapolis City Council that was about to go to court for an emergency hearing to get a court order outlining immediate changes for the Minneapolis PD and a framework for systematic change. The woman was clearly indicating her support for the City Council's effort to CHANGE the police.
After five Dallas police officers were killed in a 2016 mass shooting, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said: "We're asking cops to do too much in this country. ...Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental health funding, let the cops handle it. …Here in Dallas we got a loose dog problem; let’s have the cops chase loose dogs. Schools fail, let’s give it to the cops. … That’s too much to ask. Policing was never meant to solve all those problems."
This is what many activists mean when they call for the police to be defunded. Reduce the number of responsibilities of the police, decrease police budgets to match the reduced size of the police force, and use the diverted funds to invest in programs and staff who are trained to address mental health crises, struggling schools, and other social issues.
"Defund the Police" does not mean "Abolish the Police." It means police would have a more limited, primarily peacekeeping role. But they would not be asked to take on other roles, like those mentioned above by Police Chief Brown. What happened to the woman would still be the responsibility of the police...even if they were "defunded."
http://www.closeup.org/what-do-defund-the-police-and-police-abolition-mean-and-what-do-they-not-mean/Wait… WHAT??? Defund the police means hamstring them so they can’t effectively police! THIS on top of DAs not prosecuting. Violent offenders making policing THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT!
“Chicago police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery after they allegedly engaged in a Friday morning gunfight between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, the Chicago Sun-Times first reported.
The state’s attorney’s office, however, declined to charge any of them, calling the evidence insufficient. A police report further noted that prosecutors told investigators charges were rejected because the shootout involved “mutual combatants.” “
This mamby Pamby oh we’re Trying to just “restructure” the police to make them more effective… BULLSHIT IS JUST THAT!