Right now, only the actress Natalie Portman who is opposed to the "defund the police." OMG! What will happen to the police or law enforcers when you really need their support? What if your house has been burglarized and looted out of all your furniture, appliances and jewelries. What if when you need them when you are being harassed and subjected to brutal attack and you don't have means or weapons to protect yourself and family?
What could DEFUND means to you?
Let's take this for example:
A man was running amuck with a sharp bolo on his hand and nobody can stop him from slashing his sharp bolo on every path he passes by. You called the 911 hotline for help but the police wont be bothered because first they lost funding for emergency vehicle and some of them lost their guns, they can only use taser or some of them lost their ability to function due to PTSD. Worse of all they wont get into the confrontation because the suspect is a man of colors or black.
Most of the domestic violence happened at home and most of the hotline tips are "cases: people of colors." What to do? they will probably close the 9-1-1 help line.
If the police force is defunded what is the best alternative? VIGILANTES? Barangay tanod? I don't know how courageous they are though. First they are not allowed to have guns. Do you want them to use other weapons such as chaku, knife, arnis, taser, pepper spray, or tear gas?
Oh, darn, maybe we should watch FLASHPOINT. It's a television series about law enforcers (police) who are equipped in dealing with day to day survival of confrontation with people of interest. Most of the time the story is about abduction, kidnapping, hostage -taking. Yeah, I think in all those episodes I watched, most of the time it's about hostage taking scenes and how theses professionals deal with "how to stop aggression, how to talk mildly with compassion on how they can control the mind of almost insane criminals who at seconds notice could take the life of another human when wrong words are uttered or wrong move could be very fatal. There are scenes and episodes when they are at the location of bomb disposal and how they can get away from it within split seconds. Mind boggling for them as law enforcers and their lives and lives of others depend on them and their moves.
On police brutality: Do you like Bruce Willis movies? How about the movies of Mel Gibson? These two actors are brutally brute when it comes to action. Violent movies. They were always been reprimanded by their head chief of police for using excessive use of force and wrecking their police vehicles. Well, only in movies when and where fanatic fans love the superbly enticing stunts where everything explodes and everything got wrecked and destroyed from properties, buildings, bridges, to transportations (vehicles) all those blasting and special effects came into power and thus, how blockbuster movies are made.
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