Cities Weigh Cutting Police Budgets and Discover How Hard That Is

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Notions of “defunding police,” heard often at protests, run into spending that’s often locked in by pension contracts and union-negotiated pay scales. “All of this stuff is really hard to dislodge.”

Officers’ pay is a large part of the spending and is often subject to collective bargaining. Pensions are locked in for years.

 

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Why would they do this? This sounds like a terrible idea. Why would any major city even consider this if there's still crimewaves happening? If anything, they need to increase funding. Who came up with such a dumb idea?

Do you know what happens when you eliminate the police? People arm themselves, instead of the burglar going to jail and going to court, he goes to the morgue.

Theres a way around the obstacle to the Defund movement. StopPayingTaxes and you will FORCE the govt to defund everything. Such as StopPayingSchoolTaxes and force teachers back to school or they dont get paid

Any city that is cutting police budgets at this point, is acting a bit prematurely. Time hasn’t passed to determine what you are trying to achieve.

Cities don’t “look”. WSJ means leftist cadre Sor0s-funded city officials, bent on 🇺🇸’s destruction.

Thank goodness. Local calls getting rejected due to being spread too thin as it is. This is not the solution...back to the drawing board.

Defund the police and civility dies

More money doesn’t mean better policing but more entitlement.

renegotiate / dismantle police and teachers (worse) unions. all public unions in fact!

Beautiful idea. Hacking and slashing budgets ought to improve the quality of forces.

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Unions and administration eating those costs.

Austin Texas cut $150 million from PD budget. One third!

You have a small percentage of the population committing a large percentage of the crime. Arrest + Convict + Incarcerate=Safety + Savings.

Don’t worry. Not going to be able to hire or retain police anymore

How does cutting the police budget stop rising gun related crime? Would journalists fairly report if it happened as often in high end white areas? Why did the astute high income blacks look the other way for so long? Did the lock down sober anybody up?

My state is already cutting funding to animal shelters in order for the police to have more funding despite many people who oppose this. Crime in KS has not risen, but actually has decreased since 2017. There are evil forces at work here.

End the mother fucking War on Drugs.

Defunding the police for the wrong reasons.

How much has the damage cost in major cities. Pretty sure it’s more. I think community policing and alternative methods need to be developed. The judicial system is broken. Utterly screwed up and broker

Given that the blue cities that have been horrid to their police have seen huge spikes in crime. is it any surprise that the public is not so thrilled?

Public safety pension and insurance (workers compensation and liability) cost are extremely high. Maintaining a police department is very expensive.

America has outsourced Parenting, Social Control, Self-Control etc to the Police.....and hates the mirror when it comes full circle......maybe WE think about family, moral compass, self control etc....if we are better we dont need law enforcement as much....DUH!!!

More minority law enforcement officers, it's not rocket science.

Lower the wages they are public servents.

Which means they spent more on Prisons. And Court costs. Policing is a money sink rn.

And how much did they spend on locking people up in private for-profit prisons?

Poorly informed public support.🤷🏻‍♀️

yes, because defunding the police is not the answer. The EJI suggests many federal reforms, including ending the transfer of military equipment to police departments, a national comprehensive policy on use-of-force, a law banning lethal force, & mandatory racial biases training.

“...spurred by public support.”

Hasn't the rioting convinced you it needs to grow along with better training? 😃

Cut funding for police and what you going to do about safety

The police budget has to keep up criminal organization which have unlimited resources. The problem is a few bad apples and going after Low hanging fruit meaning over kill on law abiding citizens with the full power at their finger tips. Over zillas cops looking for a promotion.

Wow that’s the budget for Police. In India you can get the same actions from police bashing the civilians, fake encounters for one tenth the price and with very basic weapons... you need to learn to use your money wisely

Why don't u invest those money in educating police officers, anger management,how to deal and treat people without constantly thinking that they have the right to fucking kill, even children, stop getting on people proprieties,stop arresting people without knowing who they r

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This money needs to start going to programs that help people, not brutalize them.

Highest police budget for the most brutal vicious and racist police in the world with highest crime rate and highest number of prisoners in the world

Defund this the biggest organised crime gang created. The Police!

Spending should start going toward educating police offers on dealing with mental illness, and mental / emotional breakdowns.

Whether it is needed to spend so much money on policing is still a question. Americans are the kindest people around the world who seldom do anything poor or ill, so it has become clear that we don't need such a big number of police because they seldom come into use.

Stand up MAGA

Demilitarization and deescalation should be the goal.

U can’t fix stupid.

Those cities need more budget on education, not guns for police.

Glittering jewels of colossal ignorance.

I wonder if there will be an exodus from cities.

This country has lost its mind.

The 28th Amendment will abolish police patrols by legally limiting cops’ power of arrest to 9|11 phone call complaints. Cellphones outnumber police officers 408-to-1 in America. The word “Phoenix” occurs in the writings of Nostradamus

By historic, you mean at the time you posted this, right?

They’ll crash and burn. And I’ll be thrilled to see it.

I feel like you are missing out on some of the bigger things happening in the US. A large portion of cops in the US have been training for years. Do you think you could turn that around?

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It wasn’t hard to dislodge public health care, it wasn’t hard to dislodge unions in every other sector, wasn’t hard to dislodge manufacturing jobs overseas. It’s not that hard if you do your damn job.

This is very simple people! Reform each Department change culture of bad cop teaching and bad cop practices. Teach cops respect public and public respect our Cops. This is elementary Ladies and Gentlemen!!!!

Just don't pay it. We have learned, from years of watching republicans, that laws aren't worth the paper they are written on. Fuck em

Start by prohibiting these police departments from paying misconduct settlements and hold the officer(s) personally liable. If their fellow officers want to help, they can have a bake sale or something.

Don’t worry, Republicans hate organized labor and will break up the police unions.

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