3 years ago

This video explores #AbolishThePolice / #DefundThePolice to see if doing so will save black lives?

If you asked me, "Anthony, how can I kill the most amount of black people in the shortest amount of time?"

I'd say, "Why the f*ck are you asking me that question, you psycho!”

And then I'd say, #DefundthePolice #AbolishthePolice

If you care about black lives, you'd actually advocate for the complete opposite of what BLM is proposing. We should increase police officers, budgets, and training!

You see the problem is U.S. police are overworked and understaffed. It’s not uncommon for a police officer to work a 24 hour shift!

And even in their off-time, police can still be called in the middle-of-the-night to speed toward a life threatening situation or a seemingly banal situation that could turn deadly in a second.

The police involved in George Floyd’s death should be prosecuted, but facts are facts and when police are overworked they face more fatigue and when they face more fatigue they are more likely to use force.

If only people listened to the Minneapolis Mayor in 2019…

And in 2019, the Minneapolis Police Chief echoed the same sentiment…

Since 2013, the number of full-time sworn officers in the United States has dropped by about 23,000 and the average number of full-time sworn officers per 1,000 U.S. residents has decreased from 2.42 in 1997 to 2.17 in 2016 (11% drop).[3]

And since 2015, even though poverty has dropped, we’ve seen an increase in violent crime.

In all U.S. cities, murders rose 8.8%, but for cities with over a million people, murder spiked over 20%. [4]

But I guess one way to eliminate police overwork and fatigue is to just eliminate the police altogether, but then of course this will lead to more black lives being lost.

It's interesting though to see mainstream Democrats try to whitewash and gaslight the meaning of "abolish" as they try to hijack the BLM movement to further their own agenda by saying, "Oh, it just means reduce funding so we can move that money to education and mental health."

Really?

Now you care about fiscal responsibility?

It just seems a little disingenuous because at a time when Democrats seem to think we have unlimited money by proposing free healthcare, free college, debt forgiveness, public housing, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed income, just to name a few... then when it comes to the police they all of a sudden care about how to pay for stuff?

Let's just be honest of the motive behind #AbolishThePolice. The primary motive is to get rid of the police, i.e. the goal is removal in of itself. The freed up funds is an added bonus. The bottomline is we don't need to abolish the police to put more money into schools (and btw the U.S. already spends more money on K-12 education PER PUPIL than virtually every country on Earth and yet as we continue to increase education spending our education quality continues to decrease).

If you care about black lives you'd see 90% of them are lost at the hands of a black person, but because that isn't sufficiently alarming enough for MSM to care… their lives are all but ignored for the flashy story of the white guy.

Stats matter.

If our goal is to save black lives then we are asking the wrong questions. We should be asking what causes black on black crime?

Not a simple answer.

But at least we’d be starting with the most important question. And then from there we could ask other questions like…

* How can we keep the family unit together?
* How can we get people off the shackles of welfare and on their own two feet as contributing members of society?
* How can we raise median income?
* How can we better integrate our communities?
* How can we give parents and students more power over their education?
* How can we reduce the recidivism rate?
* What should the cities of the future look like in terms of infrastructure?
* How can we use economic nudging in cities to encourage positive habits (bike riding) over negative ones (cigarette smoking and fast food consumption)?
* How can we build an economy of small owners and small investors?
* How can we better protect children from the garbage floating around the internet?

But the worst possible question we should be asking right now, is how can we abolish the police?

And going back to the ludacris 1984ish idea that abolish doesn’t actually mean abolish and defund doesn’t actually mean defund… crime will go up the more cops you cut. So how much blood in the streets are you willing to accept before you are ready to break ranks with BLM and argue to #IncreaseThePolice?

And once you get rid (or reduce) the police, you will also get rid of (or reduce) the businesses in your community who rely on their protection.

As safety and money leave your community, you could have the best teachers and social workers in the world those kids aren't going to go home to do their homework… if they even make it home.

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