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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
I don't think those demanding defunding of police know what defund the police means. Defunding means to reduce their funding.
My point is that the police are essential, and that defunding them would make the country more dangerous.
ACAB means All Cops Are Bastards, and is not a "fringe" group but a slogan used for decades to insult the cops. It's been hijacked by the BLM movement as slogan to express their hatred for cops. I appreciate you're not on Twitter, but if you were you'd realise that it's not "fringe".
The entire annual UK police budget is less than the budget for New York alone. That is roughly 10x the police spending per capita. So when americans say defund the police, they are talking about a police force that has 10x the funding the police force of your country has. Your police force is defunded to a level that is incomprehensible by american standards.
These are numbers that I was immediately able to find. I'm sure it flattens out if you take the whole country. Another way to look at it is that police expenditure in the US has risen by over 300% in the past 50 years and cutting the budget in half would only put them back in the 90's in terms of what they were working with.
If you think the police budget in the US is appropriate and you're being logically consistent, you should be out there asking for the UK's police budget to be increased until it exceeds education and infrastructure spending. You should be calling for military weapons and vehicles as well as explosive devices and crowd control weapons that are banned by geneva conventions, because that's the stuff you need to even get anywhere close to where the US is.
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