I grew up in Sunnyvale.... It was/is? a town that really was run by the
people. People got pissed about waiting at stop lights in traffic way
back in the mid 70's and they passed a city ordinance that the lights on
all major throughfares had to be synced for throughput! It was great!
Drive the speed limit and just cruise. Traffic got to dense for it to
be non-stop in the 90's but software control improved as well as the
planning s/w and it's still the easiest town to drive through in the
valley IMNSHO... Left the valley in 98... I would get in trouble now
for saying why...
On 6/15/20 7:26 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
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
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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 .
*Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2020 6:14 PM
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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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