Biden: "GOP used 'defund the police' to 'beat the living hell' out of Democrats.

[User.45]

The Trump campaign and their allies kept switching between calling Biden and Harris the beginning of anarchy and a police state. It's kind of ridiculous. They weren't sure what attack ads to run, so they just used anything that might generate negative sentiment.

The "defund the police" slogan isn't that meaningful overall. Police are primarily funded and managed at the local level. At the national level, you can stop selling them surplus military equipment.

At the state level, you can write laws that undo some of the established case law, which favors officers. They should not be able to shut off body cams, and there are many many videos with inappropriate use of firearms in full view of the camera. It's not like they're pointing them somewhere out of frame. You can also centralize prosecution of these cases in a different manner so that prosecutors who are involved do not have a vested interest in maintaining good relationships. You can sanction and withhold funding on police and sheriff's departments that do not comply with legal information requests. You can stop dispatching police for things such as wellness checks.

Even if the percentage of overall calls that go bad is low, there are many incidences that appear to be avoidable, based on dash cam and body cam footage. I really don't think these departments deserve much sympathy in the presence of such things, particularly when they involve officers with disciplinary records.

Agree with all.
1. Surplus military equipment has no effect on public safety
2. Militarized police increases mistrust in police
3. Police officer testimony without video evidence should not be acceptable. When the gun holster is opened, the cameras should always roll.
4. Cops should be prosecuted by an independent body to eliminate conflict of interest
5. Cops should be licensed and those w/o a license should be off the force.
6. Warrior style cop trainings should be banned. Those who want warfare can join the military.

Plenty of options. Of course gun regulation would also help making police work safer too.

 

[lizkat]

You coin a title to appease critics, you'd have acronyms longer than the Khmer Alphabet, and phrases that require you to start saying them at 6AM to finish by 6PM.

I don't think a slogan is what is needed anyway. Slogans after awhile are the same as "we're gonna do a study..." like they keep saying about effects of longstanding systemic racism in schools up in Rochester NY...

And making a slogan out of police reform is anyway ASKING for someone to convert that to "soft on crime" in next campaign.

Just do it. State intention to improve policing, be transparent on the changes as they occur, see how it goes, report to public, fire the cops who don't get it, fire the commissioners who can't get compliance, reboot the training academies to forget about "blue wall of silence" on abuses... send a social worker or counselor on domestic violence responses. Ask for public cooperation.

Say "we're gonna make mistakes. It's gonna be different. We're not gonna make the mistakes we've been making before."

Then prove it. And own the new mistakes and go again to try new ways of mitigating them. This can't be that hard unless someone sees a payoff in keeping it how it is. Then time to call them out on that and describe how that works and why it has to change and "make it so".

Also,,,, it's not like there's no bad guys out there. So there's that. Being a police officer is hard work.

 

[Zoidberg]

@JayMysteri0 :

Whining about how the other side plays dirty while not doing anything to change their strategy is how in the UK Labour has managed to give the Tories a decade -and counting- of uninterrupted power, which of course they use to further consolidate their strength.

The only reason Biden has won –as the thin margins numbers and gop gains have shown– is because Trump has been such a terrible, terrible leader. Had he been just slightly less incompetent you’d be looking at another 4 years.

You know what happened in 2016 and 2020 (Republicans doing well) that didn’t happen in 2018 (Democratic gains)

Here’s a hint:

• 2016 – 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest, March 11. Five people arrested and two police officers injured during a demonstration at the UIC Pavilion.
• 2016 – Democracy Spring rally in April. March to Washington D.C. and sit-ins lead to arrests.
• 2016 – 2016 Sacramento riot, June 26, A confrontation between white nationalists and left-wing counter protesters at the California State Capitol. Ten people were hospitalized for stabbing and laceration wounds.
• 2016 – Widespread protests erupt in response to two deaths at the hands of police, the Shooting of Alton Sterling and shooting of Philando Castile. At least 261 people were arrested in protests in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, and other cities.
• 2016 – 2016 Milwaukee riots, Sherman Park, August 13–15. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sparked by the fatal police shooting of 23-year-old Sylville Smith.
• 2016 – 2016 Charlotte riot, September 20–21, Protests and riots break out in response to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a Charlotte police officer.
• 2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline protests, 411 protesters arrested. Multiple skirmishes with police, with vehicles, hay bales, and tires set on fire.
• 2016 – Anti-Trump protests, November 9–27. As a result of Donald Trump elected as 45th President of the U.S., thousands protested across twenty-five American cities, and unrest broke out in downtown Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. In Oakland, over 40 fires started and police officers were injured.
• 2017 – Berkeley, California, February 1, civil unrest ensued at UC Berkeley as Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on the campus.[8][9]
• 2017 – 2017 Anaheim, California protests, February 21, protesters demonstrate after police officer grabs boy and fires his gun. Protesters damage property and throw bottles and rocks at police.
• 2017 – May Day, in Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon, protestors demonstrated for workers rights. Protestors damaged property and confronted law enforcement.
• 2017 – 2017 Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11–12. At a Unite the Right rally of white nationalists and white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, rally attendees and counter-protesters clashed, sometimes violently. A woman, Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 other injured when a rally attendee drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors. Two law enforcement officers also died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the event.
• 2017 – 2017 St. Louis protests, beginning September 15, large protests erupted when police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith on December 20, 2011. Some of the protests turned destructive and the police became violent. Windows were broken at Mayor Lyda Krewson's house and in the Central West End business district on the first night, many windows were broken in the Delmar Loop on September 16, a few were broken downtown on September 17 after police drove swiftly through a crowd following a peaceful march. Police conducted a kettling mass arrest operation of nonviolent protesters and bystanders, beating and pepper spraying many, including journalists, documentary filmmakers, and an undercover officer. Protests and sporadic unrest continued daily for weeks.
• 2019 – Memphis riot, June 13, following the fatal shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals, Memphis, TN.

2020​

• 2020 – New York City FTP protests, January 31, Anti-Transit Police and MTA protest resulting in hundreds of arrests over the three separate days of demonstration. Vandalism and violence on train stations were reported.
• 2020 - 2020 United States racial unrest begins.
• 2020 –
  Protesters surround a police precinct in Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests, part of a larger wave of civil unrest in 2020.
  Protests began on May 26 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spread around the world after the killing of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, the policeman who held his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes, was fired along with the three other officers involved. Chauvin was charged with manslaughter and second-degree murder. The other three policemen were charged with aiding and abetting murder. Protests spread to other American cities and then to other countries with Floyd's murder garnering international condemnation.[10] Protest tactics included peaceful occupation and resistance, defensive action and barricading following violent escalation by the police and state agencies, and looting and arson of corporate commercial property.[citation needed] In the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill, an occupation protest and self-declared autonomous zonewas established on June 8, 2020 covering six city blocks and a park after the Seattle Police Department left their East Precinct building. The area was cleared of occupants by police on July 1, 2020.
• 2020 - Kenosha unrest, Aug. 23–28, On August 23 Jacob Blake was shot in the back by a police officer while not complying with their attempt to arrest him. Protests and rioting occurred after the incident. A State of Emergency was declared and police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. During several days of rioting, Government buildings were damaged, businesses were looted and set on fire, and vehicles were firebombed, including 100 cars burned at a car dealership. On the third day of unrest an armed teenager, from out of state, shot three protesters, wounding one and killing two others. By August 28, almost 1000 Wisconsin National Guard troops were on the streets, backed by National Guard troops from Michigan, Alabama and Arizona. Nearly 100 buildings were damaged with the cost of damage to City property close to $2 million and the cost to private property damaged near $50 million. Kenosha, WI
• 2020 - Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aug. 26-28, On August 26 a false rumor that police shot a man in Minneapolis, started riots that set four buildings fire and damaged 72 more.
• 2020 - Jewish Protest, October 7th-8th Brooklyn, New York, Members of the Orthodox Jewish community protested over new Covid restrictions. Minor fires were set, masks were burned, and journalist Jacob Kornbluh was attacked. Heshy Tischler was taken into custody for inciting a riot. [11]
• 2020 - Philadelphia riot, Oct 26 - Ongoing, Caused by the Killing of Walter Wallace by Philadelphia police.
• 2020 - 2020 United States election protests Nov, 5th - Ongoing, Multiple violent incidents in Washington DC clashes. Violence between demonstrators and counter protestors occurred on multiple nights including November 14th and December 12th. Multiple stabbings and over 23 people arrested on December 12th.