• Johanno@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Maybe you should throw more money at the problem. This eventually will help. Right?

    • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfOP
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      Surely, if we just give the police 80% of our cities budget instead of 70%, they’ll stop murdering innocent people and harassing minorities!

      Many cities are literally being held hostage by their police force, who threaten to not only not do their jobs if held responsible for their actions or if their budget is lowered, in some instances police themselves will vow to become criminals if they are held to account.

      The police system is literally strong men blackmailing entire communities into funding their own oppression.

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      1 year ago

      Too bad we’ve never tried that with K-12 in living memory.

      I have a feeling the results would be very different than giving money to the capital defense force “law enforcement.”

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        Except for the inherently fraudulent charter schools, of course, but those don’t count for a reason mentioned in the beginning of this overlong sentence.