| Comment | As far as I'm aware - because I personally haven't heard anyone propose defunding Police Scotland - the Defund the Police slogan is in relation to US police depts, many of which are wildly overfunded to the point of being able to purchase armoured personnel carriers from the US military. These are people who want money redirected towards community programs.
Even the places that have 'abolished' their police forces, like Camden, NJ, replaced them with organisations that basically are police depts but built around a different work culture that encourages community policing. That's what they're trying to do in Minneapolis, as I understand it.
Whomever you heard say that on the radio sounds like an idiot who's failed to grasp why black communities *in the US* want to defund their local police, because they're actually replacing them with bodies that look more like Police Scotland. |
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