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Why We Should Be Defund The Police Department

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We should defund the police departments and officers because we can use the extra budget for more effective things to help the community. Defunding police departments means to cut funds and stop providing a certain amount of money to one source. Defunding police would mean to take away money that they receive for their own benefits and salaries and use it to fund different places around cities and neighborhoods. Taking this money away from the police can be a good benefit to the community, we can use those funds to help support families in need, renovate parks or streets, the money can also go to helping schools with supplies or getting homeless people off the streets and somewhere safer. In other words, Defunding means to cut funds from going …show more content…

In some cases, it is arguably more effective to fund things like the examples given, because it benefits our communities more than policing and jail do. The extra money that we spend one police officers can be used to support different things in every city, and it can also help improve the crime rates, a city in brooklyn once defunded their police department for a whole week and crime rates dropped drastically, if we can defund police departments, crime rates would drop and become rare and not that many people would be in jail or held in custody over police …show more content…

Many people live in fear every day because of police officers. Police departments receive funds and gain control and power, giving them the right to terrorize communities. Police officers should be defunded and taught that they have no reason to terrorize and attack who they please, they are here to serve and protect, not to abuse their power. Police officers get over 97% of funds. If we were to lower those percentages, crime rates would lower and police brutality would vanish. A city once completely defunded their police department for a week, and crime rates dropped drastically. If we were able to do that for every city, and every police department, crimes, breaking the law, and people going to jail would be minimal and rare at most. We can use this budget that we cut from police to fund rather more important things around the city and neighborhoods, such as parks or living states, we can use the funding to help low income families and support anyone struggling with mental health or any sort of issues. If I were to be asked, “should police departments be defunded or funded?” I would say

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