As a Management Analyst I can tell you the level of service going forward will decrease. There are very few sure things in my line of work, but that is one of them.That already happens. I have even been put on hold calling the police-only line. But as far as response times go, my disttict just gained several square miles of area off Michigan Rd but no extra bodies to staff it.
Like the BLM folk who started advocating for police being defunded after the killing of George Floyd? Then the Democrats took up that slogan and tried to re-brand the slogan by gaslighting us that defund = reform?The question is - did they? Was that truly their position and their opponents created this strawman?
They are plenty of BLM/Antifa folks that want no police at all, but there's way more that want reform, and have always been saying that, even if they weren't making the news.
At least in my Vanilla Village, the trend is to call the police for everything.
Car driving too fast for your taste?
Car driving too slow and creeping you out?
Someone setting off fireworks?
A golf cart on the street?
CALL TEH COPS!
Cell phones are the worst thing to ever happen to law enforcement.
The current one on Nextdoor is, "I think someone moved around our patio furniture on the deck."
CALL TEH POLICE!!!!
If you advocate shifting a part of an organization's budget to other outlets, you are advocating defunding of that organization. You are depriving the organization of at least part of its operating revenue. How that pilfered money is spent, and on what, has no bearing on the fact it was extracted from the police budget
And mine.
At least in my Vanilla Village, the trend is to call the police for everything.
Car driving too fast for your taste?
Car driving too slow and creeping you out?
Someone setting off fireworks?
A golf cart on the street?
CALL TEH COPS!
So whats going to stop these inner city gangs from coming out 50+ at a time looting, burning entire cities, and murdering people if there are no police officers to stand against them?
So whats going to stop these inner city gangs from coming out 50+ at a time looting, burning entire cities, and murdering people if there are no police officers to stand against them?