National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (please review page 1)

This is a really great article, and boiling down to what my mother would tell me growing up, "you are either the master of or a slave to circumstances. You can't be both."

I came from a very poor family. Lots of hand me down clothes from cousin's and being regulars at the food bank. I was the first to break into the "middle class" and become a home owner. All thanks to myself and wanting to make my life better for my kid's.
 
I came from a very poor family. Lots of hand me down clothes from cousin's and being regulars at the food bank. I was the first to break into the "middle class" and become a home owner. All thanks to myself and wanting to make my life better for my kid's.

My mother was born in 1940, she was the youngest to six kids, she grew up dirt poor on a farm, until she was a teenager their house didn't have running water and had to use an outhouse.

My mother was batshit crazy, and we did not generally get along, but she used those experiences as a source of strength and not as an excuse. I will always appreciate her and thank her for that.
 
Public: "We need better police"
Police Union: "We need more money to train our officers better"
City Council and Public: "We must de-fund the police"

The quotes in this article, LITERALLY, shows how stupid the city council members of New York are.
New York Police Department's budget has been slashed by $1 billion

They just cut the NYPD budget by 20%.

Public: "Police Unions are bad, it makes it hard to remove bad cops"
Police Union: "Actually, no, Police Unions protect cops from shit like this."

This was a long time coming. Guess what though, when crimes rises in New York, the money will come back and you'll get back to regressive policing because the idiot Mayor will campaign on that.


Do you want New York circa 1980s cause that's how you go back to New York circa 1980s
 
I came from a very poor family. Lots of hand me down clothes from cousin's and being regulars at the food bank. I was the first to break into the "middle class" and become a home owner. All thanks to myself and wanting to make my life better for my kid's.

Like I said in Open Mic, what feels like six months ago, but may have only been a month ago. I'm just a poor mixed kid who happened to do well enough in school to get a ROTC scholarship that allowed me become an Army Officer and lead men.
 
LA had 258 murders in 2018... I don't know how they expect to solve a crime problem by dismantling the only organization prepared to fight crime. I'm a fan of putting social workers, psychologists, and other community resources WITH police, but not INSTEAD OF police. How often do police come into a non-violent scene that turns violent before the whole thing is over? My guess is often enough to easily warrant being armed all of the time. Rayshard Brooks was respectful and non-violent until he wasn't. Not sure how a psychologist would handle that kind of situation. People don't like getting arrested, and non-violent crimes are still crimes and still require a punishment.
 
A lot to unpack this morning, ANTIFA has gone back to the East Precinct to retake the CHAZ from SPD.


A statue of an Elk Statue in Portland, because Elk are racist?


BLM Protests are now becoming Anti-Israel/Anti-Jew protests. Apparently police brutality is because of the Jews. I know we talk about "racism" being systemic and shit. But Jews are continuously targeted, and they're convenient.

March in Brooklyn:


March in DC:

'Intrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter': Harvard student leads anti-Israel march on Capitol
 

So here we have a privileged Asian discussing what problems black people have gone through because he took a few college classes on the subject.

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It sounds so easy what he's saying to do. Yet let's be honest, we are all the product of our friends and our home. Yes there are a few examples of people getting out and becoming a great contributor to society, but for most of those in inner cities, every day is a struggle and that is how they end up in gangs or doing other illegal activities.
 
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