As someone from elsewhere, I read it more as “use the excessive funding currently allocated to police on community building (ie. crime prevention)”.
US police are fragmented, poorly trained and militarised, which means they are crap at de-escalation, scared, bad at their jobs and hence dangerous
US police are fragmented, poorly trained and militarised, which means they are crap at de-escalation, scared, bad at their jobs and hence dangerous
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Most US police departments need armoured personnel carriers like my cat needs a second tail.
Police funding in the US is local and from the same bucket as social interventions. Military is federal and not
In the US, the funding model is different
But the cops need training that focuses on de-escalation and problem solving, plus accountability. Give them the tools they actually need rather than the toys they want.