Police have been quitting in droves in the last year
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#2Conscription often follows liberal reigns of terror. I wonder if anyone has ever thought about drafting the thieves and murderers and bums, but just don't send them to war. I'm not giving you a rifle. Yell at them for two months, and death march them, and then tell them to get out and dump them back in the dumpster behind Home Depot.
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#3Policing has to be one of the hardest jobs in our modern society, I honestly couldn't event imagine the stress.
Imagine picking up a JIRA ticket at work and not knowing if that ticket is going to a run of the mill bug fix or something that can kill you. That's just out of the realm of possibility for an SWE but for a cop it can be any one of the calls they take on a daily basis.
I've always had respect for cops because it's one of those jobs that I just know I could never ever do, props to those in our society that do that work.
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#5> Finally, officers said they were asked to handle too much; they were constantly thrown at tangled societal problems like mental health breakdowns or drug overdoses, they said, for which they were ill-equipped — then blamed when things went wrong.
Sounds like they've got some common ground with the "defund the police" folks, if they'd listen a bit.
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#6When one of the two major political parties and their friends in the mainstream media decide to team up and demonize an entire profession...
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#7Guys, police are self-abolishing. Victory is within grasp.
But seriously. Why is this surprising? This is a completely rational reaction of people who feel they're being unfairly demonized as a group despite most of them being professional and doing their jobs the best they can with the training and incentives they're given. Enjoy the crime wave.
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#8> Finally, officers said they were asked to handle too much; they were constantly thrown at tangled societal problems like mental health breakdowns or drug overdoses, they said, for which they were ill-equipped — then blamed when things went wrong. Sounds like they've got some common ground with the "defund the police" folks, if they'd listen a bit.
I'm guessing it would've been better if they went with "Distribute funds properly" instead of "Defund the police".
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#9Guys, police are self-abolishing. Victory is within grasp. But seriously. Why is this surprising? This is a completely rational reaction of people who feel they're being unfairly demonized as a group despite most of them being professional and doing their jobs the best they can with the training and incentives they're given. Enjoy the crime wave.
Lol thanks for dumb take.
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#10Sounds like 'defund the police' is stupid, self-defeating sloganeering that makes no sense given what its apparent settled-upon meaning (only settled upon many months after becoming popular).