Is Defunding Police Departments the right course to take?
Is defunding Police Departments the right course to take? Are we having a knee jerk reaction based on anger and frustration? Are our pent-up emotions leading us down a path we may not be able to navigate in the long run? Is it possible that the ideal of defunding a police department is motivated by outside radical ideology, individuals and groups who have planted the ideology that defunding is the quick fast solution to our policing issues? Radical ideology infiltrating a movement so as to create more chaos. The same chaos, peaceful protesting has turned into by those same individuals and groups who have marched aside the masses to sow their own disruption. In principal to defund a project, department, or close down an in-affective policy is to dismantle it by taking away its monetary support. Thus, closing the doors, even if it means getting rid of the good along with the bad.
When we defund a police department, believing it will solve the issues of bad policing policies, bad seeds in the department, Racism, and individuals who are emotionally unfit to police. We are also defunding police who and have always been for equality, emotionally fit to serve, and are the police we want to serve our communities. If we are working on a knee jerk reaction to our anger and frustration to blind us from realizing what defunding would do in the long run. We are opening up further opportunities for more problems. Compounding the problem’s, we already have. When we blindly allow our rage to throw the baby out with the bathwater, we are left without the good, though we may have tossed out the dirty water. Who will police our streets and I do not mean a national police force running amok as if this was a police state where one individual control all the buttons, the guns, and the rules of law? I mean those who do the job they where hired for. To take criminals off the street. To enforce civil obedience fairly, equally, and justly. To see that the just and fair laws of the land are obeyed. Such laws designed to assure that we do not live in a society of chaos and anarchy.
Are we best serving social change by dismantling police departments and believing by doing so, social change will move faster along? How are you gong to do that if you are barring your doors against radicals, white supremacists, and criminal elements who are taking advantage of no police departments, because we closed their doors. I would ask who is truly behind this movement to defund police. Is it individuals or groups infiltrating peaceful meetings with an ideology that defunding police is the best and only choice we have? Is it the best and only choice we have? What are their agenda’s when they speak the loudest for defunding police? In the real world, we have organized crime and criminal elements who would want this defunding so that they can gain further benefits of their criminal activities. Are we planning to put untrained street volunteers to police our communities? Are we going to do the training ourselves of a citizen police force? Who decides who walks our streets armed? I see a group of people sitting on a community board all with a different idea of how-to police, what to police, where to, and who to police. All with a personal agenda based on their own personality traits, and emotional capacity. Much like a group of 2nd graders trying to decide who is going to be the pilot of the ship and all wanting to be the pilot, meanwhile the ship is sailing off the edge of the world without a pilot.
Yes, we have far too many bad seed apples in the barrow. To save the good seed apples an orchard owner removes the bad apples and separates the good from the bad. The good seed apples remain because they have the best chance of producing a better tree, thus producing better apples in the future. When you throw both the good and bad out, you have no future. You fail to change that which needs changing. Defund police you also put thousands out of work who do not deserve to lose their job. To defund police is well like putting the Horse before the Cart. Do we want the horse to push the cart full of bricks and in some eyes an easier thing to do, or pull the cart of bricks which may seem harder? It may seem easier to defund the police, less a challenge, less work, less effort without having to pull the cart toward change. Well we are in this mess because far too many people do not want to work to achieve change, they want an easier way to get it without the labor required to achieve change. Yes, defund the police, less labor, easier then actually working together to affect the change we need in our society to assure equality across the board for all races, and ending police policies that are infected with bad seeds and people who sustain these policies.
My last final observation is. Who will truly benefit the most by defunding civil police? Think hard on that folks, when one by one we defund police departments across the nation and the man in the oval office takes it as an opportunity to order this country into a military police state of government where he can control everything in our communities under marshal law. Including declaring and ordering new laws that remove our individual freedoms. Rewrite the constitution, and claim all voting rights and elections null and void during marshal law. If you think he is not that kind of President, then go right ahead and defund our civil police institutions. I ask the question initially as to who is really behind the defunding ideology. Radical groups, white supremacist, KKK, Isis, or an unfit person in the Oval office. They all have something to gain if we defund police, for the wrong reasons. What they will not gain from is rational, get your hands dirty and change the problems with hard relentless work where it truly counts. From within the system, not outside the system dismantling it. I may have used far too many platitudes to get across my message. But if there is one platitude to encompass them all it is “Look before your Leap”, with both colored blind eyes open and check in your anger and get the job done right.
