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  • Someone sent a message out to all Democrat politicians who support this nonsense. His message:

    Defund your security detail first, and then we can talk about defunding police departments.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      My brother's captain (in the police) was immune to it and used to spray it on his food for "spice"
      In Alaska, they market pepper spray as "bear repellent", although I don't know how effective it would be at deterring a grizzly. Heard a story from a park ranger about a camper who took the term "repellent" a little too literally and sprayed his tent with it in order to keep the bears away. Except after the spray dried, it served as an enticement instead, and in the middle of the night, a curious bear bit the tent and the fellow's buttocks where he was pressed against the side. The bear took off running as soon as he screamed, so no lasting damage to anything but his pride.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • After denigrating the police for months and defunding them, it seems crime is rising in Minneapolis and now they asking, "Where are the Police?"

        With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?


        The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.

        But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.

        "Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he's already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.

        “That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen,” Osman said.
        https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...are-the-police


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        • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          After denigrating the police for months and defunding them, it seems crime is rising in Minneapolis and now they asking, "Where are the Police?"
          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            After denigrating the police for months and defunding them, it seems crime is rising in Minneapolis and now they asking, "Where are the Police?"

            With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?


            The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.

            But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.

            "Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he's already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.

            “That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen,” Osman said.
            https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...are-the-police

            Ugh.
            Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette

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            • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
              After denigrating the police for months and defunding them, it seems crime is rising in Minneapolis and now they asking, "Where are the Police?"

              With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?


              The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.

              But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.

              "Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he's already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.

              “That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen,” Osman said.
              https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...are-the-police

              Oh my goodness, the Daft level just broke my lefty meter.

              It is pegged at Full Soros Nincompoop.

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              • Originally posted by Maranatha View Post
                Oh my goodness, the Daft level just broke my lefty meter.

                It is pegged at Full Soros Nincompoop.
                It is had to believe leftists are this irrational and shortsighted...
                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                • Originally posted by seer View Post
                  It is had to believe leftists are this irrational and shortsighted...
                  I must say, they have done hoisted themselves on their own petard.

                  Ok city folk, just keep voting these people in, and I'll continue to ignore your inner city violence.

                  Maybe the cops will as well. We all have our crosses to bear.

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                  • Originally posted by seer View Post
                    It is had to believe leftists are this irrational and shortsighted...
                    Hate does funny things to rationality.
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • Originally posted by seer View Post
                      It is had to believe leftists are this irrational and shortsighted...
                      It's the difference between how leftist and rightist view people. Leftist tend to believe everyone is basically good and will behave themselves without an outside influence working on their life. The extreme version of this is "we have crime because the police exist. No police means no crime."

                      Rightist tend to view people as needing something to control their behavior. They recognize some people just aren't going to behave in a decent manner and there needs to be some way to control their behavior and if necessary take them out of society to protect society. The extreme here would be a very controlling body over individuals.

                      The correct answer is probably includes both sides.
                      "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings." Hosea 6:6

                      "Theology can be an intellectual entertainment." Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

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                      • The Minneapolis city council, which unanimously supported a pledge to abolish the police, is now asking, “Where are the police?”

                        Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported that the city council met with Minneapolis’ head of police on Tuesday: “Just months after leading an effort that would have defunded the police department, City Council members at Tuesday’s work session pushed Chief Medaria Arradondo to tell them how the department is responding to the violence.”

                        Newly elected council member Jamal Osman said, “Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police?’”

                        Osman added, “That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.”

                        Council President Lisa Bender suggested police are intentionally not arresting people. She claimed, “This is not new, but it is very concerning in the current context.”

                        Arradondo did say over 100 officers have left the department this year, including those who have taken leave, and MPR notes that is “more than double the usual number of officers who either step down from the department or who are inactive each year.”

                        Fourth Ward council member Phillipe Cunningham expressed surprise that council members who had so recently supported doing away with the police department were now calling on the police to be doing more. He suggested the focus should instead be on using money taken from the police budget to hire “violence interrupters” and put them in place to prevent crime in the first place.

                        https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ereare-police/

                        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                        Than a fool in the eyes of God


                        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                        • So where are all the social workers they were going to get to replace the police with the money they took away from them?

                          Why can't they do their job?

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                          • Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View Post
                            It's the difference between how leftist and rightist view people. Leftist tend to believe everyone is basically good and will behave themselves without an outside influence working on their life. The extreme version of this is "we have crime because the police exist. No police means no crime."

                            Rightist tend to view people as needing something to control their behavior. They recognize some people just aren't going to behave in a decent manner and there needs to be some way to control their behavior and if necessary take them out of society to protect society. The extreme here would be a very controlling body over individuals.

                            The correct answer is probably includes both sides.
                            I will vote for Otherist because libertarian is tainted.

                            I don't think people are basically good, people are basically not good, and have a measure of self control. The "good" ones are able to control themselves.

                            I don't believe people need controlled. Some may need patrolled, when it is clear they are not getting the message.

                            Even liberals want people to obey the laws we have. We can change them whenever we agree they need changed.

                            The problem is people using violence. Ain't nobody got time for that.

                            And the more Democrats dance around it, even promote it like Harris, the more people will not vote for them. The last part was a public service announcement.

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                            • And.... now that they have pretty much helped destroy their own city as well as others with this "Defund The Police" nonsense, they are now backtracking and pretending they didn't really mean it.

                              Source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-minneapolis-plan-to-defund-the-police-collapses-city-council-members-regret-making-pledge



                              REPORT: Minneapolis Plan To Defund The Police Collapses, City Council Members ‘Regret’ Making Pledge


                              By Emily Zanotti
                              •Sep 28, 2020 DailyWire.com




                              Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images

                              Minneapolis, Minnesota’s plan to defund and then disband their local police force has “collapsed” according to a New York Times report from over the weekend. Some of the Minneapolis City Council members who pledged to abolish the city’s law enforcement — including the City Council president — now say they regret making that promise.
                              The Times headline blares that the “pledge to dismantle the police department has collapsed,” and notes that “a majority of City Council members promised to ‘end policing as we know it'” after George Floyd died while in the custody of the Minneapolis police department. Instead, though “they became a case study in how idealistic calls for structural change can falter.”

                              Back in June, the Minneapolis City Council was clear that the Minneapolis Police Department was on borrowed time. The City Council president, Lisa Bender — a self-described progressive — told residents that she had a vision of a “transformative new model of public safety” and now-famously added that anyone worried that a lack of law enforcement would result in a spike in crime was speaking from a place of “privilege.”
                              At the time, Bender even challenged her fellow councilmembers to stick with the plan to dismantle the MPD, lest they be complicit in “white supremacy.”
                              “If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it? Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?” she mused.

                              She got the timeline nearly right — for herself. Bender is now among those who say abolishing the police is not the right approach.
                              “Councilor Andrew Johnson, one of the nine members who supported the pledge in June, said in an interview that he meant the words ‘in spirit,’ not by the letter,” according to the NY Times. “Another councilor, Phillipe Cunningham, said that the language in the pledge was “up for interpretation” and that even among council members soon after the promise was made, ‘it was very clear that most of us had interpreted that language differently.”’
                              “Lisa Bender, the council president, paused for 16 seconds when asked if the council’s statement had led to uncertainty at a pivotal moment for the city,” the NY Times adds. “’I think our pledge created confusion in the community and in our wards,’ she said.”



                              Over the last month, Minneapolis officials have moved to “formalize a retreat that has quietly played out in Minneapolis in the months since George Floyd was killed by the police and the ensuing national uproar over the treatment of Black Americans by law enforcement and the country at large. After a summer that challenged society’s commitment to racial equality and raised the prospect of sweeping political change, a cool autumn reality is settling in,” the NY Times reports.
                              “National polls show decreasing support for Black Lives Matter since a sea change of goodwill in June. In Minneapolis, the most far-reaching policy efforts meant to address police violence have all but collapsed,” the outlet adds.
                              That’s partly because Minneapolis has experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and partly because the City Council had no plans beyond defunding and dismantling the police department — something the city’s charter explicitly disallows.

                              © Copyright Original Source








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                              • Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                                And.... now that they have pretty much helped destroy their own city as well as others with this "Defund The Police" nonsense, they are now backtracking and pretending they didn't really mean it.
                                Liars, cowards and hypocrites...
                                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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