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IllTransportation141 t1_j0zmnmd wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in New York City Councilman Erik Blottcher's office, home vandalized with hate speech by mowotlarx

Defund the police was just a collective fever dream?

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mowotlarx OP t1_j0zn356 wrote

Did the NYPD ever get defunded??

Sounds like a fever dream the right wing glommed on to and pretended was actually a threat. Anyway, how about the NYPD budget that is larger this year than it's ever been, and will be even bigger next year!

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j0zqb7y wrote

>Anyway, how about the NYPD budget that is larger this year than it's ever been, and will be even bigger next year!

How about our own D politicians, who criticize the police plenty, but are still voting against the Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act? (House vote last week)
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022525

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mowotlarx OP t1_j0zvnmt wrote

So you agree the police in NYC and elsewhere have not been defunded, right?

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poboy212 t1_j0zozyf wrote

NYPD should still handle actual crimes, like this. All you have is this shitty straw man argument.

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George4Mayor86 t1_j0zr4zg wrote

Pretty much, yeah. It was a fringe slogan that translated into zero actual policy.

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oy_says_ake t1_j140fzl wrote

Nypd’s budget is bloated, especially given their performance.

E.g. they buy new squad cars every 3 years whether they need them or not, and meanwhile to actually do their jobs we’d be better off with them walking or using bikes/scooters/etc in most cases, especially since they’ve been doing virtually no enforcement of traffic violations post-pandemic.

Yet for some reason they always escape budget cuts while we chop away at libraries and social services.

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