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In my city the funding for police went up, but it didn't go up high enough, so the cops are doing a "silent strike" and only answering calls they personally care about. It's not that we defunded the police, some people said we should defund the police, they lost, but that was enough to hurt the police's feelings, and now they don't want to work.
The same ole talking points will not work. How about accountability?  Hold the police to the same standards they hold us?  Kill someone you go to jail. No Union to protect you. >

Hold police accountability at the level of every other profession. Personal liability. Carry insurance. You mess up? Rates go up.
Healthcare? Free market. Housing? Free market. Economy? Free market. Workers? Free market. Groceries? Free market. Energy? Free market. Cops? Socialism. 
Come on. We can do better. >

Or just imprison them like general population. Imagine if they provided these resources to other non police criminals >

Wait till you see what happens when federal agencies investigate themselves lol >

Damages need to be paided directly from the officers retirement fund and mental health professionals need to be the ones who respond to mental health emergencies. >


mental health professionals need to be the ones who respond to mental health emergencies.

This would change less than you'd think. Because you'd still need police to gain control of the situation before bringing in the mental health professional safely to do their thing, And that whole 'gaining control of the situation' is where shit tends to go wrong.
Unless your plan is to train mental health professionals to have police like tactics to subdue people. In which case I have to question why it's easier to train a mental health professional to act like a cop than it is to train a cop to act like a very budget mental health professional to control the situation for the real guy. Also most mental health professionals are not emergency mental health professionals. 
Also unless you send them out to every call, odds are by the time you realize that mental health is needed, it's probably too late. Consider - 911 gets a call, dude with a gun is firing randomly. Could be drunk, an asshole, really stupid, a wanna be mass shooter, or mental health crisis. Only 1-2 of those require a mental health professional. Only way to know is to send police out first to find out. Which is again when shit usually goes wrong.
Mental health care in the country needs to be far, far more proactive. There's no way to stop altercations/shootings when police respond to a mental health crisis because shit just happens. Sending mental health professionals doesn't help too much. But front end care to prevent the crisis and back end care after the crisis will help prevent repeat crisis. Mental health facilities in this country are insanely underfunded. >

The point is there doesn’t need to be a violent “control taking” confrontation the majority of these cases. This is how warped our perception of these situations are. >

Police training isn't going to work with the violent white supremacists who have been joining police departments so they can legally kill POC.  The FBI warned us about this. >

When an agency that plotted to kill Martin Luther King Jr. thinks your organization is too racist that's when you know things are bad. >

What those cops did in the latest atrocity wasn't a lack of training, it was a lack of basic human decency. Train all you want but at the end of the day you have to start setting higher recruiting standards. >

Dead black guy? More money for cops. Every single time. Super progressive >

Require a bachelor’s and a certificate like teachers do. >

None of this stops till geogroup and core civic are put down.  Take profit out of crime. >

Yeah,  because the 6th largest militarized force on the planet, used entirely as a domestic enforcement arm of capitalist doctrine, needs more resources to not be fascists. What a status quo old fool. >

" we can't turn away" let's give them more money. Yeah that'll show um. >

Yes, he did say some things. None of which he will follow through on, and most of which makes no sense, because he is totally incoherent and very tired.
Edit: Apologies, I forgot about his stutter >

Someone doesn't know how the government works and, as a matter of fact, didn't even watch the State of the Union. >

I thought we were defunding them though.