, who quickly took to Twitter to mock the idea and accuse Democrats of working to dissolve policing in the United States.
"What I'm calling for is a rethink on why we've turned all of these social problems over to the police to manage," Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of"The End of Policing," said in an interview with NPR."As we dial those things back, then we can think more concretely about what the rest of policing should look like and how that could be reformed.
While state and local governments spent $115 billion on police in 2017, according to the Urban Institute, experts told ABC News that because the majority of police budgets fund salaries and benefits, any cuts could impact the quality of police officers. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nixed a planned $250 million boost to the city's police department's budget, redirecting the money to community programs and the city's African American community.Over the weekend, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also said he would reallocate an unspecified portion of the New York Police Department's $6 billion budget for social services.
"It's no longer sounding like a radical idea. It's sounding like a logical idea for many," said Janeese Lewis-George, an attorney and democratic socialist in Washington, D.C., who won a city council primary last week and supports defunding Washington's Metropolitan Police Department. With some progressives, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in support of defunding police, the White House and Republicans are pushing all Democrats on the topic -- from former Vice President Joe Biden, to rank-and-file Democrats from moderate and conservative House districts.
Demonstrators protest Saturday, June 6, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis."Funding of police is a local matter, as you know. From the standpoint of our legislation, we're not going to that place," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on MSNBC.
Ad to the list of trump enablers. These fucking networks just don't get it. MSNBC ABC CNN All complicit in helping Trump EVERYDAY!!!
Abolishing Police may sound crazy but Community Policing is the route. Take a look of what happened in Camden, NJ after they implemented it. KeishaBottoms
OldSalz Another example of astonishing media bias.
OldSalz This is BS and he should know that. They actually just changed the names- they actually had more men & women on the ground.
Yes it worked but people are threatened with arrest for loitering for taking walks , people are harassed systematically cameras are seen everywhere thats not freedom then look at what Citizens Corps does its gonna cause our nation problems . Gangstalking isnt the answer.
There was an awful lot of complaints about them
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From what I have seen and read come up Camden New Jersey is the model that I believe most municipalities should be looking at in order to gain some guidance on how to restructure their own police force if they so desire Pittsburgh
mslibrty I'm not a fan of all his politics, but Christie is NOT the liar & total trash Trump is. Speaking about Camden on the subject see if you can spot any differences in his response versus how don-the-con has responded. Trump's views never mature or evolve. On race they're consistent.
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This is true
What's Chris running for?
How did the murder rate go down? Honest question
Would like to hear more about Mr. Christie’s Camden,N.J. Community policing. I like the idea, I get the idea, I grew up in that era, but we now have drugs, guns, homelessness, and people that don’t seem to see anything or do anything except start filming.
Technically, they fired the police and rehired new police. It's not like they went without police. Let's focus more one what they really did to accomplish success, and less on the sound bite.
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Eleanddon This doubled the size of the department and utilizes a complex surviellance system. They have double the amount of patrols now. I mean if it decreases violence and shit, I'm down. But this ain't 'defunding the police.'
Chris Christie trying to stay as relevant as a lap band.
abc playing their EnemyOfThePeople part.
In other news
His ass wouldn't dare go there.
They did not dismantle their police the reform it - The new county force is double the size of the old one, and officers almost exclusively patrol the city. 👇Please people it’s life here we are risking by miss information
Here's a 2014 story from Governing magazine about the Camden County Police Department.
selective memory - what happened was city PD became county PD. they implemented more of a community policing strategy but that's as not all they did. does ABC have a research department or do they just take guests words for everything?
Camden population: 74,000 NYC population: 8.4 million
So, you're saying the murder rate went down because there were no police? I'm not buying that!
What happened in Newark?
Camden just changed the name of the force and actually increased the size of the force which led to the decrease in crime
Stfu
Ok. When Chris Christie becomes a voice of reason you know something is wrong.
Of course it can be done!
Camden doubled their police police force which is why crime went down. Tell the whole truth or don’t tell it at all.
The Republicans will still make excuses. We just have to vote them all out. VoteBlueForPoliceReform VoteBlueForJustice VoteBlueForBlackLives
What's community policing, a vigilante force?
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Christie and Rahm only adults abc
Yes, by having one inept &ignorant black in his staff, ordering army to clear protesters like leaves, emboldening White supremacist & other grps, trying to delegitimize Obama, removing progms put by Obama to help Blacks, pushing for innocent black men to be imprisoned or killed.
So individuals get to be hit with lawsuits when they do not follow proper police procedures? If a new law enforcement group is formed is isi still basically a 'police' force with another name. The official police are needed in the USA.
They also doubled the number of officers.
That’s Bullsh__
Congratulations Gov. Christy fantastic!
Your headline is a trap. The police dept was restructured with many of the original officers being re-hired. The revamped dept had more cops than the old one.....
Lets not minimize community input, local church support and focus on needed peace and enviorment movement within existing population. Camden erected only monument to PEACE at same time. Broadway and ferry park.
If there’s no law then there’s no criminal at all. 0 rate. Isn’t that better?
lies We lived it...
You should not take Christ Christie's word on anything. He raided policemen and firemen pension funds. And switched from Camden City police department to Camden County police department because later paid less. 'Less police' was a byproduct.
It's a great time to be in the small arms business.
I’m shocked he agreed with this.
Not sure why ABC insists on having Chris Christie on the show? He just panders to the president and offers no intelligent commentary.
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Crooked Chris Christie (who left with the worst ratings of a Governor ever!) is on national TV telling us how to police and not to police, WTF? GStephanopoulos has stooped to pretty low levels since his days in the War Room. Get some better guests! GWBridge FtLee
And the police force increased by 25%? Omitted facts and and data give false narratives all the time. Anyways, no white person in 'Murica moves to Camden.
Narrator: Camden never 'dismantled' its police force.
Gov Christie you are a dreamer.
Fact check: what happened was 'consolidation' - changed from city PD to county PD, which allowed changes to contract. they may have started implementing community policing but that does not mean that they stopped using traditional methods of policing.
If those Dem cities would have managed their budgets better instead of using for personal use, they wouldn't b having a convo about redistribution of funds DefundTheDemocrats truth truthmatters
Why the protesters want to defund police ? Simple they have been brainwashed by the media . Constantly being bombarded with false information every second of the day. They just want to end police brutality, hold officer accountable. Less police means more crime in America.
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Less funds, less police, less protection! Are people stupid
the only way this is gonna stop is if the police get more funding for better training
I would love to see someone paint over the 'Defund The Police' sign!! We need people to enforce laws that our ELECTED officials created. If u don't like those laws, VOTE THEM OUT!! Also, can we add 'ALL' to the slogan, so we can include the nearly 77,000 black children aborted?
Isn't every police department in the world already being reorganized? Let's start spending the BILLIONS that was Donated to Humanitarian Projects. I'm confused did we donate to continue protest issues everyone in the world is making or to make solid changes in our Communities
This is just straight up propaganda - were you bought by China?
Wonders if any of these so-called advocates call to redirect police funds ever had to sit in one of these low Income Community Health centers and wait for substandard medical care. Being attended by rude disrespectful clerks who seem all unqualified to attend desperate customers
that's not what 'defund' means - you are PROPAGANDA ABCisLeftwingPropaganda
And all of this will make minorities commit less crime?
Can we defund the media?
How come all these Democrat cities are such cesspots of brutality and neglect?
I am for the United State of America. “Advocates” are criminals and should be treated like enemies of the state.
Because they've been misinformed and you're complicit.
Police literally saved one of my family member's life. Most police are fantastic people.
Classic communism. One state police.
Watch crime increase!!!!
But who will be there to enforce laws that criminalize poverty?
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Don't forget sprinkling fairy dust and wishing really really hard that people will be nice and say pretty please
Defund the police , then next time you call 911 for a break in or assault, deal with it yourself
If you want to disband the police, you better be a major supporter of the secondment amendment as well. Demilitiralizing the police is one thing, but putting yourself in a position where you can’t defend yourself and you have no one to call for help is just recipe for disaster.
What a radical concept! 🙄
One policeman, killed George Floyd! Two police officers participated and did nothing! They have each been fired from police work, and hopefully neither will ever be allowed to work with the public again! They are each going to see their day in court! LET’S NOT THROW THE BABY OUT!
Probably the dumbest idea ever
Because they are idiots?
To refund police nobody feel safe not to mention to help the poor. People should learn to self disciplined to stop drug and alcohol abuse. In many cases, people are their own enemy.
According to Mayor DiBlasio's wife, it would be 'Nirvana' if there weren't any police.
Give this experiment a couple month s, it will collapse on its own. Unfortunately, many people will inevitably die and suffer from the rising crime and chaos.
somebody paint over that disgusting display.
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DEFUND TRUMP!!!!!
That reminds me, I have redirected some of my monthly budget toward ammunition, more weapons and better security. Have fun kids...
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The police will find other ways to get the cash they want. There are no easy fixes here. Three line slogans are not going to do it. Stop dark PAC money, stop campaign donations from military equipment manufacturers etc.
They want to rule all
I think they want to defund police so they take over neighborhoods, cities, businesses and intimidate people into paying them to stay safe and those funds will go into pockets of gangs and organized crime
I agree with many of their ideas (police reform) but the slogan “Defund the police” is a losing one and a gift to the GOP/Trump.
AKA - more welfare
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Police, while important, have become the default answer to things. They should be reserved for a last resort. Crime prevention would eliminate a good amount of work that cops do.
If they can’t make specific, concrete, immediately implementable proposals, they don’t know what they’re talking about.
It's hilarious
Fuck no.
Defund an already under funded police force. That's rich
Reorganize, train special teams of specialists but remove police than a great field day for the criminal element
Makes a lot of sense to normalize and carry water for this fringe movement ...
If they defund my police department....! I want the a tax refund. Hard pass on the “social” program wish list.
It’s amazing that the criminals want the police gone.
They want to defund police so they can deal drugs , rob and kill without worry of anyone stopping them .
Do you think drug use might have something to do with homelessness? Food for thought...
Hint: it’s because they’re idiots
Billions of dollars have been raised. Let's start directing that. Let's see the plan and the action. Let's see where this money is going. No plans CXL the donation! You made the Point now let's see the$$$ go to the Original Humanitarian Organizations
Millennials live in a perfect world where police aren't necessary. okboomer
Defend good police. Defund corrupt politicians.
'There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.' - BTW
Defunding the police, is NOT going to get rid of the criminalistic beings working in the justice system! Reevaluate & remove, all unfit for duty, deemed by an outside entity, conducting the reevaluations? Immediately. No bigots & racist must be allowed to work in the ⚖️ system.
Let's get is straight: BLM wants to defund the police, not the average protester...
ALL POLICE should start taking your SICK DAYS and VACATION TIME!!! The community leaders, ministers,so called advocates nor police have been able to curb juvenile and inner city crime. Let's see what these citizens and our reliable social workers can do.
May be because they think once the police is gone, the streets will be filled with gold and honey, criminals will give up their evil deeds and we will all live happily after?
Because liberals and Rhino's want control and will start wars, riots and create violence and anything to gain that power. YOU like others are helping them destroy a country from within..What a Disgrace .. News Flash... GOD WINS!! STAND BACK and WATCH.
Because the police only work for funding resource and they got more money from white man. This is what systemic racism is.
This is ridiculous. What are all you people going to do when there’s a break in? A shooting? Someone hits your car? Who would you call? Defunding the police is non sense. You let a few bad cops make them all look bad. P.S. the left does not want to defund.
What should happen? Every Police Department that is defunded should keep a record of the officials that voted for this. Whenever any of these pieces of crap ever call for help - the Police should ignore their calls!
I hope they do. This should be hilarious. All this over a fucking criminal.
Simple they want chaos
Since these people haven’t listen to their mommas. What makes you think they’ll listen to social workers.
Stop pushing this BS. It is a stupid slogan and a sure loser. It was probably instigated by a GOP operative.
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So they can continue to terrorize law abiding citizens...steal and not worry about getting caught...beat people in the streets...its rather clear.
they defund police, against the second amendment, so who will protect us? Why does the Democratic Party want complete control over us like the fascist government of China?
well you know all the democratic cities, DC , Baltimore, NY, Minnesota, and Chicago have the highest violent crime rate in the US...... same mayors and Govs that want to defund and make police less equip to handle an already awful crime city
I implore those who don't know to read, lest you get embarrassed like McCain did yesterday.😬
The elitist status qou media has to get a handle on the narrative here 🙍♀️ The only way the privileged can continue forward with the globalist agenda favored by eltists, is if they continue to use force to control the poor and disinfranchised segments of OUR nation.
Why abc perpetuates propaganda...for ratings, not truth.
Because they support crime?
No mention of the 'Kilroy was here' signs springing up everywhere.
Can you imagine the absolute chaos that would ensue if the police did not protect those folks within the inner city neighborhoods? This only works against their own community. Other affluent neighborhoods would fund their own programs. notsmart
This seems eerily familiar to the no go zones Islamic communities created in the Britain ..🤔
Or keep paying them to whip people's asses
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