Dear Two,
h. “What is this based on” Factually speaking, I made it up. Irvine is a modern and wealthy city, full of education centers. Ferguson is low on funds, with an undereducated and poor population. No police policy could fix the disparity. Which is just as good. I doubt the residents of Ferguson would appreciate living in Irvine.
i. Racism does not have to be systematic to ruin the designs of good governance. Add in class struggles, corruption, and lack of oversight, and all it takes is a few racist cops (or politicians) to make it about life and death. It does not have to be one specific issue. As long as the government is ignoring a group of the population (or an area of the city) one cannot argue that crimes will not happen because of the ‘peace of the country’. Criminals have to be cowed by society at large. Not by conflict with just the Police.
The advocates for ‘Defund’ think the crime rate will go down. Because of a stronger sense of community, less resentment in poor communities, and a more accountable police force. I think we can agree that as is today, law enforcement cannot solve the drug problem in inner city communities.
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