Re: [AFMUG] OT: batcrazy

[Bill Prince]

Look up the city of Sunnyvale, California. They abolished their police department in 1950 and created what they call a public safety department. They still have patrol cars, but the officers do triple duty as police, firefighters, and EMT. They did this in 1950, so it's been working very well for ~~ 70 years.

We used to live in Sunnyvale until about 1996. Great town, and great public safety department. Saves the city a ton of money.

bp
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On 6/15/2020 5:37 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

For many people, that seems to mean stop funding the police to deal with issues like mental health, homelessness, domestic disputes, street vendors, routine discipline in schools, etc., and instead use that money to fund specialists, and let the police handle murders and robberies and stuff.

 

I had a discussion with someone who is all for defund the police and I said if that’s what they mean, the term really sucks, because it conveys something totally different and many people are not going to support something that sounds like disband the police and then nobody handles murders and robberies.  Rather than saying reform the police, or narrow their focus, or move some of their responsibilities to other agencies.  But he said I was wrong, without really explaining why I was wrong.  I think he meant we can call it what we want to, who cares if it’s unnecessarily provocative.  Or maybe he really does want to disband the police.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of justsumname .
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Subject: [AFMUG] OT: batcrazy

 

is it just the 'news' that I'm reading or are things really going totally bathshitcrazy ?!?     "de-fund the police" .... is just ONE thing.

 

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