Goodness, that sounds so reasonable. It IS reasonable, and probably should be discussed and potentially implemented...by actually setting aside funds for that purpose, and carefully tried in a few places.
Unfortunately, that is NOT what DEFUND THE POLICE was proposed to be. It was a direct attack on the police departments to try and blame cops for all the bad things that happened in poverty prone neighborhoods, and to address that supposed 'problem' by reducing their forces and their presence in those neighborhoods.
We were right here when all that came out Dashy, and was demanded by the left wing lunatics. We heard and read what the BLM and Antifa activits were saying. We saw the Democrat city councils in California, Oregon, Washington state, and numerous Democrat lead cities jump on the defunding band wagon, saw them oversee massive reduction in police personnel and funding, and we've seen the results. Experienced and good cops retiring or leaving the force in mass. Violent crime skyrocketing. Response time increased and cops in danger with no back up available.
There was no 'misunderstanding'. There was no 'unfortunate' name assigned to the goal. BLM, Antifa, and all the violent criminals got exactly what they wanted.
Now, integrating social workers with police is an idea worth considering, but you need to get some conservatives to develop a plan that will work, since liberals have no idea how....they just assume that they MUST be experts, and jump in without thinking, as the DEFUND THE POLICE fiasco proves.
Just be warned....unless the social workers are backed by good guys with guns, the social workers will experience a very high attrition rate.

So "redirecting funds" away from the police is different from "defunding them"? Whatever label you want to give it, or way you want to spin it, the bottom line is that the police will have less funding, and therefore there will be fewer police.

And apparently you think there are too many police around because a lot of them are "wasting their time" on mental health and domestic dispute problems? What??? Those type of "problems" can be the most violent of them all!! And you think social workers can take care of them??????

Goodness, that sounds so reasonable. It IS reasonable, and probably should be discussed and potentially implemented...by actually setting aside funds for that purpose, and carefully tried in a few places.
Unfortunately, that is NOT what DEFUND THE POLICE was proposed to be. It was a direct attack on the police departments to try and blame cops for all the bad things that happened in poverty prone neighborhoods, and to address that supposed 'problem' by reducing their forces and their presence in those neighborhoods.
We were right here when all that came out Dashy, and was demanded by the left wing lunatics. We heard and read what the BLM and Antifa activits were saying. We saw the Democrat city councils in California, Oregon, Washington state, and numerous Democrat lead cities jump on the defunding band wagon, saw them oversee massive reduction in police personnel and funding, and we've seen the results. Experienced and good cops retiring or leaving the force in mass. Violent crime skyrocketing. Response time increased and cops in danger with no back up available.
There was no 'misunderstanding'. There was no 'unfortunate' name assigned to the goal. BLM, Antifa, and all the violent criminals got exactly what they wanted.
Now, integrating social workers with police is an idea worth considering, but you need to get some conservatives to develop a plan that will work, since liberals have no idea how....they just assume that they MUST be experts, and jump in without thinking, as the DEFUND THE POLICE fiasco proves.
Just be warned....unless the social workers are backed by good guys with guns, the social workers will experience a very high attrition rate.

Goodness, that sounds so reasonable. It IS reasonable, and probably should be discussed and potentially implemented...by actually setting aside funds for that purpose, and carefully tried in a few places.
Unfortunately, that is NOT what DEFUND THE POLICE was proposed to be. It was a direct attack on the police departments to try and blame cops for all the bad things that happened in poverty prone neighborhoods, and to address that supposed 'problem' by reducing their forces and their presence in those neighborhoods.
We were right here when all that came out Dashy, and was demanded by the left wing lunatics. We heard and read what the BLM and Antifa activits were saying. We saw the Democrat city councils in California, Oregon, Washington state, and numerous Democrat lead cities jump on the defunding band wagon, saw them oversee massive reduction in police personnel and funding, and we've seen the results. Experienced and good cops retiring or leaving the force in mass. Violent crime skyrocketing. Response time increased and cops in danger with no back up available.
There was no 'misunderstanding'. There was no 'unfortunate' name assigned to the goal. BLM, Antifa, and all the violent criminals got exactly what they wanted.
Now, integrating social workers with police is an idea worth considering, but you need to get some conservatives to develop a plan that will work, since liberals have no idea how....they just assume that they MUST be experts, and jump in without thinking, as the DEFUND THE POLICE fiasco proves.
Just be warned....unless the social workers are backed by good guys with guns, the social workers will experience a very high attrition rate.

I don't think anybody is blaming cops for crimes in poverty neighborhoods. Cops don't cause crime. Of course, a well developed plan by Public Safety departments needs to be put in place before policy change is implemented. When you say "conservatives" should develop a plan, that is code for "conservatives will never accept a plan proposed by liberals." Liberals and conservatives should get together to develop a plan that has a chance of working. Are "violent crimes skyrocketing" because new policies failed or because old policing methods are not working anymore?

I don't think anybody is blaming cops for crimes in poverty neighborhoods. Cops don't cause crime. Of course, a well developed plan by Public Safety departments needs to be put in place before policy change is implemented. When you say "conservatives" should develop a plan, that is code for "conservatives will never accept a plan proposed by liberals." Liberals and conservatives should get together to develop a plan that has a chance of working. Are "violent crimes skyrocketing" because new policies failed or because old policing methods are not working anymore?