Warner Todd Huston

OK, so I am "sort of" on board with the concept of eliminating some particular police departments. I have said for years that every tiny town in dense urban areas do not each need their own police forces. It is a HUGE waste of tax money and offers FAR more places for corruption, negligence, and incompetence. County sheriff forces should be bigger to service these areas. However, I am NOT on board with doing without any police at all which is what the left-wing, BLM, nutcases want. That is idiotic.

Tim adds:

There are so many speed traps and cornpone departments, for sure. But the goal is to nationalize the police. That's what they want, to take the local cops out of the citizen's hands. Makes us easier to control. Defund the police is code for eliminating local control of police and giving it to Washington. That is one brick in the Red Brick Road to serfdom.

BTW I grew up in a small suburban town with a large police force. They were out of control, and even cops in other jurisdictions warned us about it "if you go out on the weekends drive the shortest way to and from your home. Those guys are cowboys." There were a number of "incidents" with these goons. So I understand how people feel about bad cops. (A cop who was high as a kite pursued my brother into our house and  almost shot my dad, who was roused from his sleep by this rowdy, who also knocked my mother to the floor.)

But in the end the city had to clean it up or face lawsuits into bankruptcy. That would never happen in a nationalized police setup.

There is only one purpose for "defund the police"; it's to take power away from the citizens and give it to Washington.

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