People who support Defunding the Police, I would say don’t really want to live in a place without Police, so what do they really want?
Back in 2006, After Hamas won the Election in Gaza, we saw some horrible videos and images, generally, they where publicly executing everyone from the previous administration, mainly the police (and other security agents)
I thought I would attach some video to demonstrate, but it was too graphic
they had those poor people marched chained in a line down the street, and then you would see them fall off a building to their death
So, do you think that they have no Police in Gaza?
Hint: if you are looking for some of the worst countries in turms of police brutality – well look no further…
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One more example is South Africa
Look at what happened when the whites gave up the authority to the black
law of unintended consequences will likely hit hard here. to the long-term detriment of the left.
1) as this will likely be a disaster in the communities its tried in, I will bet the residents of these areas in short order will be clamoring for the return of the police, and the idea of law enforcement as the heavy-handed tool of white oppression be damned, thus discrediting the leftist narrative to a broader audience.
2) in places like the inner cities, I’ll bet it will cause a sharp increase in gun ownership for self-protection, evening the score with the criminals who already are armed, as happens in places with onerous restrictions on gun ownership. An increase in 2nd amendment advocates right there, folks.
3) Let’s say by some very unlikely chance this has some success. What will be consequences downstream of this?
a) safer communities, less vicitms and decline in the pathology of perceived victimhood.
b) consequently, if people find themselves able to do the most basic act of self-reliance there is- defend their person and their loved ones- people will be more open to questioning what the hell they need all this gov’t in their lives to begin with.
let’s face it, for most people the lion’s share of their taxes in which they see any tangible results of, good or bad, are for schools, the police, and a distant 3rd is probably garbage pick up. Other than that, pretty much nothing directly.
the pandemic has forced parents to in essence home-school their kids… and wouldn’t be surprised if kid’s learning improved or showed no negative impact. With astronomical property taxes going to public schools in places like here in NJ, don’t think that goes unnoticed.
So let’s hypothetically remove a large percent of the cost of public schools + an increased self-reliance on self-protection on an individual/ street/ community level reducing the size and scope of government law enforcement. That would be a huge reduction in the size and scope of gov’t in people’s lives.
I’ll repeat what I said initially- this will most likely be a dire failure redounding to the suffering of the places that need good policing most. I consider any possibility of “success” in such initiatives to be far, far less, to say the least.
Yet its not hard to envision the end result to be a lose-lose proposition for the left no matter the outcome
Giving up Gaza was a big mistake. Israel should not give up one inch of Judea/Samaria.