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CMV: I don't think that Defund The Police is a good cause

I come from a very progressive mindset family and have held similar views my whole life. I've voted for the democratic party's candidate in every election that I could vote, though I wish I could've voted further left or 'Green'. That said, as someone who aligns with leftist ideals, I don't think that the slogan 'Defund The Police' is a good idea in America.

NOTE: There are logistic problems with the wording of the slogan in my opinion, but I won't get into that because it feels like a semantic debate.

The democratic party has been a proponent for bigger government for a long time, and this seems to me to be a step in the opposite direction. I am for a strong police force that doesn't act like an authoritarian tool for the government. I know that many PDs throughout America do currently have a problem of power tripping, overstepping boundaries, and getting violent or lethal too quickly in a conflict. However, police are a very necessary commodity that us citizens use when things do get unstable to the point of violence.

I vehemently despise the killers that have been excused, pardoned, or let off easy because they were "doing their job," or the victim "had it coming." That is a piss-poor excuse to attack/maim/KILL another person. What I do stand for is a police force that has multiple ways of dealing with conflict, not the current mindset that so many officers are trained to have of "Intimidate until the problem is either deescalated or escalated, then act accordingly."

I haven't been sure how to organize my thoughts or feelings on this for a while, so I'm sorry as this probably reads as a laundry list of loose connections strewn throughout my brain. Allow me to clarify if you have any questions, thank you!
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>The democratic party has been a proponent for bigger government for a long time, and this seems to me to be a step in the opposite direction.

Firstly, democrats have never taken the view of "big government".

Big government is a slogan used by republicans to describe democrat policies. Democrats take a pragmatic view that says that sometimes the government needs to intervene to make things fairer. They aren't just for government involvement for the sake of it, the way the republicans are in favour of withdrawing government support as an ideology.

Secondly, this wouldn't be about withdrawing government support. It would be about redirecting it. Taking money that is used for law enforcement, and instead redirect it to crime prevention. Community support programmes etc that are designed to make people's lives better so that crime doesn't happen.