OT - Veto Proof Majority On Minneapolis' City Council Supports Disbanding Police Department

I support the Minneapolis Council 100% in this endeavor.  And I think every officer on the force should do so to, by immediately finding a new job anywhere but there.  As the force dwindles to nothing, and the city descends into the cesspool that it inevitably will become, it will act as an object lesson in what happens when really stupid people run things

One side wants one extreme. The other side wants the other extreme. 

Per the usual, I'm going to take both extremes, divide down the middle, take the average, and assume that's probably the best course of action. Taking away police departments entirely is a god-awful idea. You're literally just inviting criminals to ransack your community with little fear of consequences. It would be a real life Purge situation. 

By the same token, doing nothing at all is a terrible idea as well. At that point you're just acknowledging that you don't think there's a problem. 

I'm all for reforming police departments that show a history of issues, ensuring they receive the proper training, ensuring there aren't ways that they can keep protecting each other when one of them fucks up, ripping out the bad seeds and ensuring they can't work in law enforcement again, etc. But taking it away entirely is just asking for disaster. 

Also, I'm not knowledgeable enough to definitively say if police funds should be re-allocated to other services, but as the husband of a public middle school teacher, I can safely say that I have no idea how my wife does the things she does on the budget she's given. If she's given a budget at all. I wouldn't complain if she was given more breathing room to work with. Her job is just as hard as mine, if not harder, and she makes far less than I do. Pretty disgusting at times to see how de-prioritized our educational system is. Or at least our public educational system.

The idiot Liberal who runs MGoBlog has been posting 'defund the police' rhetoric on the MGoBlog twitter page.  That is his right to do so, however it exposes him for what he is.  His divisive and destructive liberal thinking has ruined this once-good sports blog where we could all come together and root for the home team.