…a very different history with the police, too. There are many who definitely don’t want to believe that police are anything other than the idealized version they see on TV. The enforcement division of the “justice system” has a long history of brutality, criminality, corruption, and demonstrated concern for protecting property over people.
What’s worse is the research into the records of departments large and small across the country shows terrible job performance - across the board. So, those who are against defunding for other reasons might at least admit we shouldn’t pay groups millions of dollars every year when they’re not even solving crimes and catching criminals. Instead, they are doing the bare minimum, manufacturing cases to feed the for-profit prison system and to boost their own case closure rates.
The number of cases that get thrown out every year or don’t proceed because of their corruption and/or incompetence is high. Additional funds have to be spent investigating or repeating what should have been done differently from the beginning. This is a long overdue call to overhaul this broken part of the system and create something with oversight that works for the people, instead of mostly benefiting those who work in law enforcement.
