So much hatred

[TheKentuckian]

118. They sure do and it works. Defunding the police would be orders of magnitude more successful

No more hot rod new cars, no military hardware, no vice budget to distract and inflate, no latest gadgets would make the game less appealing and hitting the perks and pay would make the field less appealing.

It may also shrink the footprint and put cops in harm's way less regularly by reducing stops and getting them out of vice conflicts. Maybe without the "enforcement" capability they will settle down to protecting the peace or failing that stay out of the way of free people.

Hell, I'm not convinced that beat cop should be a profession at all. I lean toward a two year public service tour like the military or the peace corps. We'd still need detectives and specialists but the people on the beat should be from and usually return to the community which would transform the relationship.

I'm not going to mindlessly support funding for missions and outcomes I oppose because they are public sector. That is misusing the public's resources for fetish.

Your budget is where the rubber meets the road for your priorities. Why would I budget in opposition to my priorities? Logically, it would have to be actually to their direct detriment as well unless I had manage to move resources from other areas of opposition (which means I defunded them). There are only X amount of dollars available and I am not fixated one way or the other with the size of the sector, only that it perform as dictated by the needs of the people. I tend to think government is the better vehicle to do and certainly over see many things so I tend toward the large but if small was able to do the job that would be fine too. Limited government is all I care about, that it be constrained by the will of the people and function in a manner that reflects only taking such power that is granted.

I'm quite comfortable with the concept of taking from something I don't like and either re-directing the resources I like or even just reducing the public strain by nixing bullshit. Bullshit like our bloated and mis-purposed police departments.