Pros And Cons Of Defunding The Police

Defend, Don’t Defund

During his time in office at the Rose Garden, former president Donald J. Trump explained how “Americans know the truth: Without police there is chaos, without law there is anarchy, and without safety there is catastrophe.” “Defunding the police'' is a slogan that supports the idea of relocating money away from police departments and into non-policing forms of public safety. This movement became known prior to the killing of an African American man named George Floyd, murdered by a community police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many people who support the idea of defunding these departments would like the money transferred over to somewhere that they think would actually benefit society. Although defunding the police

The crime and violence rates have already peaked rapidly throughout the past couple years in numerous different states. Dangers in cities, communities, and towns have been building up over the years and it is unpredictable what could happen next with this situation. The Defunding the Police movement should be eliminated from serious consideration because it does not offer a practical solution and is instead just taking needed money away from the police rather than finding other ways to approach the problem.

“Defunding the police” reinforces the idea of reducing police budgets and moving them elsewhere. Those fundings typically would get shifted to community resources like housing, mental health workers, social workers, and other non-police related programs. The movement itself was originally created by activists in the 1960’s, but has just recently become a significantly greater deal. Following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, masses of people stormed the streets protesting and rioting, voicing out their opinions. The individuals were speaking up about how they believed Floyd

There are numerous alternatives that would be effective in a positive way without causing nearly as much chaos and destruction. One main alternative would be imposing better and more thorough training to all officers. Unfortunately, as a result of this movement, police officers are being stereotyped as “insufficient, incompetent, and persecutory, aggressive in their interventions, poorly educated, and prejudices,” even when it's only very few that associate with those traits. This would have likely been prevented if local jurisdictions thought ahead of time asking themselves what consequences are capable of being made. Although people have different viewpoints on this particular situation, it doesn’t hurt to acknowledge the other ways it could be solved. Communities can “impose better training, modify regulations about applying deadly force” to help prevent unessicary murders caused by officers. Although it doesn't happen often, there have been instances in which police officers have killed individuals that didn’t deserve it. Many people in the African American community feel that they are, more than any other races, being unfairly targeted by police officers. But this doesn’t mean we should stereotype all police to be ‘bad.’ Of course there are going to be some unreasonable officers out there, but in the same breath, “there are bad teachers out there too. And bad social workers. And bad