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CMV: Abolishing the police is an unrealistic and harmful proposal that allows for a strawman argument about needed police reform and oversight

I believe the police need reform. An independent oversight group needs to exist to investigate all forms of police brutality and death instead of the local department investigating itself and finding no wrongdoing. I also agree that some inflated police budgets can be redirected to fund social services that would better reduce crime. However, completely abolishing the police is myopic. I watched arguments for abolishment on Trevor Noah's interview and their reasoning was mostly that cops are bad at solving murders and murders have already happened so even in that extreme scenario, we don't need cops. While I agree that social workers might be better called for a domestic dispute or psychiatrists to drug and suicide crises, there are two aspects I think of that still need an active police force: traffic infarctions and robbery. Police cruisers are needed to keep the public paranoid enough to follow the road laws. People suggest cameras to monitor the roads instead, but cameras can't stop an incident in the moment. If someone is recklessly super speeding or drunk driving, the damage will be done and lives can be lost before they get a ticket in the mail. Additionally the threat of cops being called in to arrest burglars prevents people breaking and entering homes and businesses. There isn't a social worker type of profession that can better handle a robbery or even armed robbery situation where cop lights can even scare away perpetrators from homes.
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I think that people who genuinely want to abolish there police completely are few and far between. That's not what "defund the police" means, it means downsize the number of armed officers, make it so their only responsibility is preventing and prosecuting violent crime- which makes them more efficient anyways. With the funds taken from that, you create teams of trained individuals to deal with things like domestic abuse and mental health crises, which the police don't have a good track record for dealing with anyways.