We need sports now more than ever to give us something else to talk and care about, or even just to distract us for a few minutes a day. Without sports we all watch the news incessantly, overreact to every piece of news and find reasons to tear each other down. Sports is the common ground we all need.
Its wild out in North Philly and they have a large police force. Doesn't matter if its over funded, partially funded, or defunded if its ineffective. They dismantled the Camden, NJ police who sucked up overtime in one of the most dangerous cities in America. The replacement was a force that was based on community policing with officers actually walking the "beat" in neighborhoods. The result was a significant drop in crime over the last several years. Defunding doesn't mean let it become the wild west. It already is in places like North Philly
No, this happens routinely in some communities. He was stating how a defunded police dept. would exacerbate the problems in said communities. No doubt that BAD cops are BAD for all communities.
I was thinking the same thing the police would of shot them all.#F tha police
This is just talking points. Nearly every large if not all police departments embrace community policing. Community policing would not have stopped this act from occurring. Especially with the culture that has taken hold in urban communities. What would have stopped this is proactive policing. Maybe a pretextual traffic stop, which has been found constitutional by the supreme court.
But they haven’t defunded the police. And still this happened right in broad daylight.
Right wing robots are so brainwashed and indoctrinated that they just puppet stupid political talking points on every subject. They’d rather keep doing everything the way it’s always been even if the way it’s always been isn’t working because their feeble brains are incapable of considering or processing change.
Ppl ignore facts because its inconvenient. The guy is talking about police state when literally during the last 2 weeks there has been anarchy in several American cities bc politicians have neutered the police so much they dont even enforce laws that are felonies.
Keep giving mandatory minimum sentences to non violent drug offenders though. I mean, if we stopped putting people in jail for everything, all our prisons wouldn’t be overcrowded and they would have to parole violent offenders so often.
I work in crime. I’m a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor in Atlanta. Anyone who tells you that violent crime has dropped is lying. I’ve literally seen no change in crime rates in 24 years of practicing law.
I beg to disagree. In Georgia where I practice criminal law,
No, the United States has 1/4 of the world’s prison population because we don’t put people in jail. Stop arresting, prosecuting and convicting victim-less criminals and there’d be more than enough resources to handle violent criminals. Why are prisons full of drug users and not rapists?