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CerberusAteMyDog t1_j221ln1 wrote

Reply to comment by Effective_Golf_3311 in Globe Editorial Board: Boston police union needs to accept new realities of policing by GlobeOpinion

You are aware the whole point is to defund the police, have less unnecessary cops on the streets, and reduce the amount of power the police have right

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Effective_Golf_3311 t1_j222q38 wrote

… then why don’t they just do that? None of this requires this show. Which is really all it is… a big public display with minimal actual impact.

They could solve it tomorrow at 8am. Tell the DPW they don’t need details, tell utilities to put up road closed signs and close the block and boom… done. Suddenly there’s few if any details needed.

Then cut the police budget by a few dozen million and pink slip a bunch of cops. It’s been done before and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING stopping them from doing that. Literally… NOTHING. That decision is 100% theirs and they can do it with no outside input. Not one thing is stopping them from laying off half the PD if that is their goal. Just to repeat it for you… nothing has delayed that option since Wu took office. There is nothing delaying it as there is a supermajority and no boogeyman to prevent this decision from occurring. It would require nothing more than the desire to do so.

They could do it now… they could have done it yesterday… but they won’t. Because that’s not actually their goal and they know that puts them in the fast lane to getting replaced next election. So they ain’t gonna do it.

So try again as to what the actual goal is.

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some1saveusnow t1_j22wsra wrote

You basically just schooled this sub and all they could was downvote you. I think you know who you’re talking to out here, and they don’t actually know what they’re talking about on a deep enough level to come back at you

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jojenns t1_j22hdyj wrote

Whos goal is that you think Wu’s?

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fuzzy_viscount t1_j23z2n5 wrote

It’s really more about funding things needed equally, like mental health professionals.

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CerberusAteMyDog t1_j24e2q1 wrote

Yeah but the way you achieve that is by not paying police insane overtime wages to do things a civilian can do, like details. The way you decrease funding so that you can increase it elsewhere is by having less unnecessary police on the streets.

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fuzzy_viscount t1_j24eak6 wrote

You can also stop funding maintenance for mil-surp troop carriers and other ridiculous equipment we’ve let them justify. Doesn’t matter if it’s free that shit costs money to maintain and you’ve now got an expensive asset so you’d better use it… so much waste to be cut. Terrible messaging with the “defund the police” campaign.

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