Minneapolis City Council Votes to defund the police department

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-city-council-disband-police-george-floyd
"Minneapolis City Council members intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html
This doesn't end well for Minneapolis.
Seattle's City Council is just as left. I'm sure they will vote on this as well.
Effects if Seattle does this:
- Housing prices plummet.
- Amazon and other tech moves out.
- Homeless take over completely
Perhaps this would be perceived as a good result by the rats.
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San Francisco just voted to cut their police budget and use the money to help out the black community in SF, all six of them.DoogieMcDoogerson said:"Minneapolis City Council announces veto-proof push to disband police in George Floyd aftermath"
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-city-council-disband-police-george-floyd
"Minneapolis City Council members intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html
This doesn't end well for Minneapolis.
Seattle's City Council is just as left. I'm sure they will vote on this as well.
Effects if Seattle does this:
- Housing prices plummet.
- Amazon and other tech moves out.
- Homeless take over completely
Perhaps this would be perceived as a good result by the rats. -
People are losing their fucking minds.
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I’m listening if we are talking about cutting taxes and talking about unions in general as a leach on taxpayers. Moving money to something else is fucking insane.
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Yes they are. I live in the Bay Area. I have plenty of liberal friends down here. Hell you wouldn't have very many friends if you didn't have liberal friends down here. Even the few rational ones that I did discuss politics with, are completely irrational about this topic. It's all emotion all the time right now with them.DoogieMcDoogerson said:People are losing their fucking minds.
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The left hasn't learned that handing out money doesn't buy peace.
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Ah yes, the wild west. A great time for societal safety and well being.
Criminals have guns, conservatives have guns, sane leftists who want self defense have guns...
So who is going to look out for the retards who voted for this? -
Less taxes for me!
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I'm sue the council will get body guards at taxpayer expense. They need protection.
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Trump 49-2, rather easily.
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Let's do this!
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Regulators mount up!UW_Doog_Bot said:Let's do this!
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1. Have publicly funded police
2. Defund publicly funded police
3. Only rich people can afford private security
4. Complain only the rich can afford private security
5. We need a publicly funded police option for the less rich
6. Pass and fund a publicly funded police
7. Get re-elected and celebrate, we saved the city!!
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When the next school shooter shows up, is Karen going to jump in her Prius, screech into pick up lane out front, run into the class and rescue her kid?
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Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
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If that's what comes out of all this, all the broken windows sacrificed at Old Navy will have been worth it.Dugdawg said:Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
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Yeah but why stop at only the police public sector union?PurpleThrobber said:
If that's what comes out of all this, all the broken windows sacrificed at Old Navy will have been worth it.Dugdawg said:Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
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I wouldn't.SFGbob said:
Yeah but why stop at only the police public sector union?PurpleThrobber said:
If that's what comes out of all this, all the broken windows sacrificed at Old Navy will have been worth it.Dugdawg said:Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
Public employee unions are a cancer on the taxpayers. A fucking cancer. Underperformers are protected and allowed to perpetuate inefficiencies in the government. Virtually impossible to fire a union employee in a government job.
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You and I are in full agreement but when do our good leftists who are just discovering this about police unions, apply it to all public sector unions? The answer is never.PurpleThrobber said:
I wouldn't.SFGbob said:
Yeah but why stop at only the police public sector union?PurpleThrobber said:
If that's what comes out of all this, all the broken windows sacrificed at Old Navy will have been worth it.Dugdawg said:Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
Public employee unions are a cancer on the taxpayers. A fucking cancer. Underperformers are protected and allowed to perpetuate inefficiencies in the government. Virtually impossible to fire a union employee in a government job. -
How does this not move towards short-term anarchy?
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I agree but it also goes both ways. I was a public employee and then a union for 12 years. I got outstanding reviews every year...but there is absolutely no merit increase or bonus attached as opposed to the private sector which is totally demoralizing. It was always “thanks....this review/meeting doesn’t mean anything but I appreciate the feedback.”PurpleThrobber said:
I wouldn't.SFGbob said:
Yeah but why stop at only the police public sector union?PurpleThrobber said:
If that's what comes out of all this, all the broken windows sacrificed at Old Navy will have been worth it.Dugdawg said:Police union busting move. Will probably be a disaster but Kroll is a cunt. Police unions in general better look in the mirror. This IS a different time.
Public employee unions are a cancer on the taxpayers. A fucking cancer. Underperformers are protected and allowed to perpetuate inefficiencies in the government. Virtually impossible to fire a union employee in a government job. -
I'm not sure why "completely destroy this institution" became a solution to very real problems.
I can't speak to other urban police forces, but I don't know if anyone has ever seen the Seattle police respond in less than six hours to any kind of crime that didn't involve active violence. Stolen property is virtually never recovered. I'm sure defunding the SPD will do wonders to improving those outcomes. -
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You lefties pushing this shit better figure out how you are going to be able to blame Trump for it. This will get people killed. By the people who don't want the police.
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Whoever said yesterday that this will ultimately lead to increased crime that will then be used to accuse Republicans of racism and not caring about black people and demanding more Federal money for urban areas, nailed it.Sledog said:You lefties pushing this shit better figure out how you are going to be able to blame Trump for it. This will get people killed. By the people who don't want the police.