Would you pay more taxes for better police?
Not for Neink / michaelthomas, or for our bros trying to move Wall Street to Miami.
Was reading about the Ma'Khia Bryant situation and de-escalation. Would you be willing to pay more for
a) Police de-escalation and community based training, including for racial bias
b) Significant raises for police
The former, when combined with reforms, has proven to be successful under Obama (I've seen quotes for serious use of force declines between 30-60%, though Trump got rid of Obama's consent decrees as part of his "tough on crime" image). The latter is pretty much the only way to get higher quality folks in the long-run.
NYPD is roughly 6% of the state budget. NY state income tax is roughly 9% for the highest bracket. Would you be willing to pay say an additional 1-2% of state income tax for better police?
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The Ma'Khia shooting was justified, she was swinging a knife
No. Cops are already obscenely overpaid. Redirect funding.
Are they actually, I have no idea how much cops make. I know they get pensions and probably good health insurance, but don't know anything about salary.
People act like paying cops more will suddenly make black people more compliant during arrests.
jesus fuck
Or, you know, stop committing 50%+ of the violent crime.
This is a thread about policing and taxes. If you are a grand wizard, there are other sites you can visit.
Right, would love to see how "de-escalation" works out when someone is attempting to stab someone else.
What about forcing police forces to meet diversity quotas? Seems to me that having police forces with demographics that match surrounding areas would decrease the us vs them mentality of minorities and police. Increased funding would just be spent on robot dogs like in NY or other wastes of money.
Before you post your stupid thoughts, why don’t you go look up the police force demographics of, say, the top 10 urban metros in America? It’s all very easily accessible public information. Hint: you may end up finding them to be extremely diverse.
Post like this make it seem like police forces are just armies of white people when in reality they're very diverse, especially in larger cities. You could make the force entirely made up of blacks and that won't change the fact that black people chimp out when getting arrested, regardless of who is doing the arresting
Throwing more money at the "problem" is almost never the solution. The answer is that we need more leftists joining the police force, particularly in large urban areas.
I’d pay anything in taxes to get the dysfunctional 13%ers under control once and for all. America would be a semi-utopia without their nonstop criminal shenanigans.
It’s all public info, but after 25 years cops with overtime can get up to 200-250k then get a pension for 2/3’s of their income and health care for life
police chiefs can clear 300-400k all in
i doubt paying them even more is gonna change anything
Literally three news stories per day of 13%ers beating the shit out of random Asians (white supremacy strikes again!), and forget about insanely high black on black crime rates, but some of you dumb dumbs think policing is the problem. Lmao.
Its hard for me to want them to make more when I grew up around some super corrupt police forces that scammed so much overtime to the point where some made over 300k a year (among other things)...
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