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re: What professional athletes would do if they truly cared
Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:34 pm to TotesMcGotes
Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:34 pm to TotesMcGotes
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Meanwhile, cops were all Rhodes Scholars.
Great point. We definitely should give departments more funding to properly train officers more often and thoroughly. Or we could go the Flint, Michigan route. That seems to be working.
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Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:35 pm to SoDakHawk
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A good start would be the $500 million in public funds the Milwaukee Bucks took to build their arena. That and a few million from the players would go a long way towards ending poverty, homelessness, drug addiction, broken families, etc. in the Milwaukee area
You'd be better off taking that money and setting it on fire. The only way to fix those issues is a complete culture change.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:35 pm to Tiger1242
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I mean they literally just quit playing their sport in the most crucial moment of the season to support their beliefs
The NBA postponed their games for a day. So brave.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:37 pm to VADawg
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You'd be better off taking that money and setting it on fire. The only way to fix those issues is a complete culture change.
All true, but that change would require personal accountability which doesn’t seem likely.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 8:52 pm to lsufball19
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We definitely should give departments more funding to properly train officers more often and thoroughly.
If you mean taking money that would have gone to the further militarization of police departments and using much of those funds toward better educating and training police officers, I would agree. And so would the majority of the Defund movement, I believe.
Posted on 8/26/20 at 9:26 pm to TotesMcGotes
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If you mean taking money that would have gone to the further militarization of police departments and using much of those funds toward better educating and training police officers, I would agree. And so would the majority of the Defund movement, I believe.
You realize most departments around the country aren’t militarized right? I’m talking basic funding. Many departments don’t even have that. They get the bare minimum, pay officers barely livable wages, attract the bottom rung because of the low pay, don’t train them for shite after they get out of the academy and then people wonder why there are so many shitty cops. And then, at the same time, we think the answer to police brutality is to cut their funding. fricking brilliant
And I’d rather have our local government waste money on toys for the PD than a lot of the other bullshite and inflated govt salaries my taxes pay for
This post was edited on 8/26/20 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 8/27/20 at 12:18 am to lsufball19
If a department isn’t properly funded, I wouldn’t say to defund that department.
It’s not all or nothing. It’s an issue of some departments that are closer to armies. That money should be used elsewhere, in my opinion.
It’s not all or nothing. It’s an issue of some departments that are closer to armies. That money should be used elsewhere, in my opinion.
Posted on 8/27/20 at 12:27 am to Glorious
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who pulls guns on the police
Missed that part.
Posted on 8/27/20 at 5:50 am to Jon Ham
Yeah, instead of being multi-millionaires who can somewhat help their communities with their money and influence, they should become police officers, and change absolutely nothing because most police departments in this country are beyond fixable. The problem with police in this country is a macro-level thing. Policing as an institution: the unions, the militarization, the brutality, the qualified immunity, etc. cannot be fixed by "good cops". Those things are engraved in how policing is done is this country and "good cops" get eaten up by the system. It is the job of politicians, and even NBA owners with serious influence like the fricking DeVos family, to make change. Players can only do so much and striking is one of them.
Change has to come from elected officials who can defund the police or abolish departments that cannot be fixed and rebuild the department, like what happened in Camden, New Jersey.
Change has to come from elected officials who can defund the police or abolish departments that cannot be fixed and rebuild the department, like what happened in Camden, New Jersey.
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