They'll say, "no no no, we don't mean to take away all the police, what
we mean is...."
But if your slogan takes 3 paragraphs to explain then it's a stupid slogan.
On 6/15/2020 8:37 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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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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