BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Bbsing De: MIKE POWELL Data: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 08:30:00 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- > It has nothing to do with anarchy, it has more to do with having appropriate > resources. But the right called it "defunding the police", and that's where > we are. You were right about part of it, but not this part. The right picked it up after hearing "non-right" protesters chant it. They also got the idea that it meant taking *all* the money away from those on the "non-right" who claimed that was what they indeed meant, even if it wasn't what the more sane people on their side actually wanted. If you don't want "the right" to call it "defunding" then don't put it on your protest signs. > I lived and worked in San Francisco and Oakland for many years. I've seen > people on the streets committing crimes, harassing people or leremy sleeping > and panhandling that belonged in mental care facilities, not jail. In fact, > many of them had been in institutions that could no longer afford to keep > them. We certainly need more facilities and not jail for most of these people. Jail won't help them. > Because there's no mental health resources available, the cops get the call > - and they're not well equipped to handle them. Somewhat related but, for a while, here in Kentucky they would send out social workers to do some of these things because they are supposedly better equipped. The sad reality of doing so is that some of the people they were calling on are, or turn, violent. After some of the social workers got injured/murdered, they stopped doing that as they realized the police are better equipped at dealing with them. In some cases, IIRC, they were sending both and the social workers were still being targeted. It is a double-edged sword. --- BgNet 1.012 moe's tavern * 1-502-875-8938 * moetiki.ddns.net:27 ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]