Riot Police With Pepper Spray Vs. Violins? I'll Take This As Another Police Department...

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6. I know the term defund the police scares people, but we ought to be looking at the role

the police play in our public safety. This is completely outrageous.
A part of the argument for defunding the police is that they spend their time doing a lot of things that do not protect public safety.
Sure they put a lot of people in jail but - But a lot of that is not for unsolved murders or unsolved rapes or robberies or assaults. A lot of those serious crimes go unsolved.

Instead we have a lot of arrests for non violent offenses. We are the country that locks up the most people. It is time we re-think what policing is supposed to be. Especially given the fact, as you see here, many think of themselves as enforcers, not there are servants of the public.