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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I am not sure what any of this even means.
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9 members (a veto-proof majority) of the city council stood on that stage and pledged to "dismantle the MPD as we know it." Because the activists who organized the event put those words on the stage, we're supposed to believe that those 9 meant to get rid of the police this fall. This is because they are all wild-eyed radicals in disguise (they are not).
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I've heard of keeping social workers around to send on calls for the mentally ill
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Locally, we just did a multi-year, detailed analysis of 911 calls, finding that a substantial majority of them did not require someone with a gun, and that virtually none of them that started out without that need escalated to need one. Unfortunately, I don't know more details than that because it hasn't gotten much press.
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But my suburb isn't keeping social workers around 24/7, and it seems the worst police abuses are in smaller cities?
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That's an interesting point. Your city likely has far fewer police, per capita, than a big city. It also probably doesn't have over-policed communities.
As you note, it nonetheless likely has some super racists policing.
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Adder posting during the George Floyd riots.
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Flower's experience was much more harrowing than mine. He was much closer to it.
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in theory Adder needed a force of armed people those nights.
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We pay one. They quit on us, and have been on a work slowdown/sick out ever since.
