Defund The Police? Minneapolis to spend $6.4M to recruit more police officers

[Thoughtful Monk]

I like the approach our Police Department is taking -- we used to have one person per shift who was certified in dealing with mentally ill people (Emotionally Disturbed Persons), but the Chief decided that every single officer - including himself - would be certified in this area. So far, we haven't even had any "defund the police" nonsense in our area.

I like that approach. I think it will work on better than a separate group of social workers on call. We also have had a couple situations here where the social team couldn't arrive in time.

Right now in my area, the police can't sneeze but it makes the news. I think there is a defund group around here but I haven't heard of it for a couple weeks now.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Many of us are quite familiar with The Ruttles thank you. That doesn't mean that we have every joke memorized.

My comment arose from the remark made by Diogenes that the Ruttles were a Beatles parody, which suggested that perhaps some people were not aware of that fact.

[rogue06]

My comment arose from the remark made by Diogenes that the Ruttles were a Beatles parody, which suggested that perhaps some people were not aware of that fact.

Not very many from my generation aren't familiar with them if at least by name and what they were (parody band), although I'd be surprised if many Gen Xers or Millennials are familiar with them.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Not very many from my generation aren't familiar with them if at least by name and what they were (parody band), although I'd be surprised if many Gen Xers or Millennials are familiar with them.

Precisely the reason I made my comment.

Unless most of us here are oldies.

[rogue06]

Precisely the reason I made my comment.

Unless most of us here are oldies.

mossy throws the curve off. With her that makes the average member here roughly 200,000 years old if not older. Did I say that mossy is old?