Defunding I probably used out of context but it goes right along with not supporting the people that protect citizens. There are people think that they can police themselves and how are they going to do that if the government is trying to ban guns, tell police they're not allowed to protect citizens or they may go to jail, and or just not seeing the benefit of having people that keep order in places that law abiding citizens won't be able to go anymore.
I didn't read the article because it was just infuriate me but I read an article headline yesterday that said some suburb of Atlanta was trying to divorce the city so they could create their own police department and police themselves. What exactly is that going to do they're going to hire cops that are only going to arrest the people they don't want to arrest which they're already doing depending on who the mayor and the police chief is?? What do they think they're going to accomplish they believe that police are doing all this wrongdoing you create a police force and you give people power and a gun and a badge you don't think that somehow they're going to become corrupt because you started this? It's insane. Follow the law, if you get pulled over put your hands up where the police can see them, don't be sticking your hand in your waistband or filming and arguing and you probably won't get shot.
You're not wrong. It's a fuckin circus. Police chiefs have become figureheads and administrators that are basically now run by the mayors and city councils. That marriage has been brutal. It's created a divide in some cities, and in others, they hire a yes man that abides by what the mayor and council do. Unions have been effective somewhat in the past, but even they are stepping aside somewhat in some cities.
Society has become extreme in all we do. Cancel cultures, and radical thought such as defunding police. There are bad eggs in all professions. How often do you read about physicians or lawyers doing shady shit? Very little. It takes one or two bad officers and it's on the evening news for the next month. It's insane. And what is worse, it creates this vacuum of a broadbrush mentality where every police officer is bad or should pay for the sins of a few.
I'm for change, but it's for education and continual training of officers. Very little training or updated training seems to occur once an officer gets off of his probationary period. Having continued training and training based upon social issues could help this. But defunding police or having no police is just anarchy. Careful what you ask for.
Everything needs checks and balances. Boundaries are needed with anything. I get it. But we've seen glimpses of how bad things could be in places like Portland. Or Chicago where they their weapons laws are so strict. Even their dipshit mayor has finally waved the white flag and is asking for federal intervention.
Furthermore, those who still can push back are eventually going to rise up and form citizen armies or vigilante groups that will protect neighborhoods, and that will dole out their own forms of street justice. No, people need to wake up and stop drinking the kool-aid.