This article first appeared at ProPublica.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1437088
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1437088
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“The police are great at solving crime”
Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over?
Motorist: You found my TV?
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Police unions wield quite a bit of political power. And politicians are mostly cowards, who read the latest sensational headline and freak out.
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What happened?
Sinema and Manchin won’t kill the filibuster.
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If police reform has stalled, it may be because the police are trying to do their real job in the face of a growing nation crime wave, courtesy of BLM. Sad!
Тебе больше нечего делать? Ваши люди проигрывают войну в Херсоне.
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bingo
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Родина-мать зовёт!
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‘What happened?’
The outrage of the day shifted, politicians stopped getting asked about why it was ok for cops to murder black men, and everything went back to business as usual.
Which is great as a Men At Work album, not so much when it comes to a non-responsive failure of government.
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Molodets!
Law and Order is the tiredest of all tired Republican tropes, and it works overwhelmingly with stupid people every time.
We have a greater percentage of our population incarcerated than any other democracy in the world, and yet we continue to think crime can be “solved” by locking up more poor people
We have almost been ruined economically multiple times by Republican presidents and Republican legislatures, but the majority of people still believe Republicans are better on the economy
We have a party that is openly cheering on fascists and autocrats, yet people still think Republicans somehow are more “patriotic”
There are days my brain just shuts down because of the stupid in our media and politics.
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I’ve been robbed in seven cities over three states and a couple of those cities more than once. No crime has ever been solved anywhere. No officer has ever responded the same day, anywhere.
My first house was robbed 2 days after we closed on it. Took two days to send an officer and she had to come back the day after that because she had no fingerprint kit. Never heard another word. So we paid ADT to turn on the alarm system they’d convinced the developers to pre-build into our house. When that alarm went off one day, it took ADT 24 minutes to call me to tell me my alarm went off and would I like them to call an officer? No, you fox, I pay you $24.99 a month to sit there and play Mine Sweeper.
So needless to say, I never thought defunding the police was a good idea. And as a slogan, it was far worse.
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I think it was ‘dropped’ because REPUBLICANS thought it was a better message that ‘Democrats are against the police, they want to DEFUND them’ then ‘we need to hold police accountable and fix police departments’. They have dined on that meme for two years. EVERYONE seems to forget that this ‘movement’ started with the POLICE wanting to stop doing certain ‘jobs’ and have experts take them on.
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This bit above doesn’t quite match this bit below.
If they haven’t delivered the services that you’re paying for, why would you want to keep paying them?
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All the crime in all the crime footage of all the tough-on-crime ads being aired for the liar and traitor Ron Johnson, happened on the former guy’s watch.
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In fact, I’m gonna put an addendum on my previous post:
Folks like ProPublica and TPM stopped asking politicians why it was ok for cops to murder black people.
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Most people understand that violent crime is a far bigger problem than a few bad apples on the police force. This may be confusing to a handful of think tank types, but the rest of us get it.
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In NYC (meaning all five boroughs, not just the Manhattan you may be picturing) non-white collar crime isn’t just mainly in certain neighborhoods but is mostly centered and sourced in housing projects where around a half million people live. They were a semi-well meaning thing started in the 1930’s but for many different well known reasons turned into centers of intergenerational crime and dysfunction. (No, not everyone living in them.) When you read about gang activity the location is always a housing project, and there’s more than that.
Other cities have gotten rid of them. NYC continues to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into them (which is never enough) while the rest of its citizens - including many with incomes low enough to qualify to live in these places - are packed into small expensive apartments and would never consider moving to a housing project for very obvious reasons.
There are other solutions to housing that work, including in NYC.
This is totally ignored by every administration, local state and national.
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Almost English…