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Defunding The Police, What Does It Mean?
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When so called activists call for the police to be defunded, what do they actually mean? Do they mean that the police are not required? If so does that surely means there would be anarchy. Or in their deluded minds do they think everyone will just live in love, peace and harmony?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ."Defund the police" has a lot more relevance in the US than in the UK. It also is one of those snappy statements that reduces a complex idea down to something simple and, in this case, rather misleading. There are of course extremists who would take "defund" 100% literally, but more usually it means to reduce the budget and in particular the scope of the policing service.
For example, in the US there is a particular problem with militarisation, when police forces get hold of former military equipment that is at best unnecessary and at worst deadly. Defunding the police would see this access to military equipment and the ability to purchase more of it vastly reduced.
Further, police may handle routine incidents that have nothing to do with crime at all, or at least not a particularly serious crime. This is then a waste of resources, not to mention that the incidents in question may require particular skills that the police either don't have or shouldn't be expected to have. Example: https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Shoot ing_of_ Linden_ Cameron -- the simple fact is that the police shouldn't have handled this incident, and certainly not while armed, but part of the reason they did is that an adequate alternative resource isn't so readily available.
The campaign goes beyond this, but there are so many different variations of it that it's impossible to give a complete description.
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Defun d_the_p olice
For example, in the US there is a particular problem with militarisation, when police forces get hold of former military equipment that is at best unnecessary and at worst deadly. Defunding the police would see this access to military equipment and the ability to purchase more of it vastly reduced.
Further, police may handle routine incidents that have nothing to do with crime at all, or at least not a particularly serious crime. This is then a waste of resources, not to mention that the incidents in question may require particular skills that the police either don't have or shouldn't be expected to have. Example: https:/
The campaign goes beyond this, but there are so many different variations of it that it's impossible to give a complete description.
https:/