Screaming Protesters and Elected Officials Want Police Defunded.




The murder of George Floyd was a horrific crime which literally changed the world. In its wake are steady calls for changing law enforcement by defunding it.

Defunding may be more wish than reality given complex webs of municipal, state and federal law, along with civil service and police union regulations to be untangled before their-dangerous in my opinion-goal can be attained.

Since screaming protesters and slightly less shrill elected officials want defunding, those I call "safety citizens" must take them at their word. We support fully funded and empowered police departments- period. We also support punishing rogue officers too.

Defunding proposals couldn't come at a worse time. Culturally, American law enforcement is violently unpopular since the 2014 death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This tipping point birthed depolicing, where over scrutinized officers cease being proactive for fear of termination or even prosecution by state and federal authorities.

A bitter irony emerges in this "Black Lives Matter" era: less empowered and funded police departments will be set up to fail underserved low income, high crime communities. My grassroots security consulting began in such an area. I know first-hand that less money and less empowered departments mean more misery for majority Black cities. They are already experiencing personnel shortages and lengthy 911 response times.

Regardless of whether demands are wishful thinking or steps toward abolition of the profession, this inescapable conclusion remains: defunding police is defeating public safety. This defeat will be acutely felt in the very communities screaming Black lives matter.

We don't need officers kneeling on people until they die but defunding police isn't the answer.

Cap Black

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