The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(06-10-2020, 03:33 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-10-2020, 03:13 PM)sbarrera Wrote:

(06-08-2020, 10:17 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: One of Maddow’s guests tonight rose an interesting point.  He is an academic, among other things having studied other cities who had to restart their police forces from scratch.  In almost every union contract is a clause that says the last person hired is the first be let go.  If you defund the police, if you take away money enough for them to reduce numbers, you are going to put the younger idealist out of a job while leaving the older folk set in the prejudicial ways in charge.

I’m hearing he is advising the City Council in Milwaukee, with their veto proof nine members out to change things.  Basically, you have to totally let go of everybody and start from scratch.

Also, the police unions seem to be more and more being presented as the bad guys.  They are used to the violent policing style and will not let go without a fight.

Seems to me they are going to have a fight.

It's come down to a struggle to the finish between the two sides of the partisan divide. You could think of it as part of Cold Civil War. I think the odds favor the Blue State on this one - and it may well require completely eliminating and rebuilding the police forces.

I can definitely see replacing the whole force in Milwaukee and perhaps Buffalo.  This accompanied by the federal bill coming out of the House is a good start.  I feel a bit hesitant to defund every police force.

I doubt that replacing the entire force is needed everywhere, but major restructuring, downsizing and the use on non-police 1st responders whenever possible, may be the new model. It's already being used in some smaller cities, and very successfully.

... and I think you mean Minneapolis, not Milwaukee.