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human
CMV: Wanting to defund the police is misguided

Police brutality is no less possible when the police have less funding. If anything, police will feel more afraid with fewer resources and potentially more likely to use aggression. Instead, police need better training. They need to learn about de-escalation. they need to have fact finding missions at other western police forces like in europe. They need to spend time and money introspecting and developing into a protect and serve force. They need to watch these videos of how police could have done things differently and give officers continual training on situations that they consider to be high risk. they need to listen to external speakers come in and teach them on psychology and race relations etc. what they don't need to do is have money taken from them simply because they've performed poorly. That's not how public services should work.
gpt
If schools can have their budgets reduced for not performing, so can police departments. 


If spending in schools doesnt correlate to better education results, then so can spending in police departments not correlate to better policing results. 


If a police department enjoys unchecked power and an extraordinary budget, the quickest way to put their power in check is via the purse strings. This is also the power that congress wields, and their primary means of control over government. Sometimes they cannot control the actions of people, they can only remove the funding for those people to do those actions on government funding. 


The same applies to a police department. If they think their actions will have real consequences through a reduced budget, they will naturally work to fix those issues and get their money back. Money is a powerful motivator, and withholding money sends the most powerful message many states/local bodies can send.