Steve Breen for December 13, 2021

Refund the police and anarchy prevails! You will have more idiots like rittenhouse and o.j. getting away with murder!

Worst. Slogan. Ever.

Made / adopted by people who were recruiting hard among the black populace in cities where the cops were (and also still sometimes are ) the problem. But you do wonder whether they had anything in mind past the next couple of weeks. It’s been a boat anchor every time people try to get to the NEXT step.

The only ones voting to defund the police have been Republicans.

The people that really just wanted reform did not think through the defund slogan. If you need a long explanation for what you really mean about something, it’s best to reword it.

Here, if you’re not white, police will search your car during a traffic stop and take your money for “evidence” of suspected drug activity. No receipt given even when requested. Going to the station doesn’t help with the sudden amnesia of what happened to your cash or drug charges, at least until the next "random* traffic stop. Yeah, the police fund themselves just fine.

Whatever happened to making police more liable for murder

Guess nothing will change and more black/People of colour will continue to die or be bullied

Breen again misses the point and this time feeds the racists.

Yes, “Defunding the police” is a horrible way to phrase what might be beneficial to law enforcement and some people they now end up dealing with but rarely want to or are properly trained to.

But what if law enforcement no longer had to respond to calls for reasons like agitated people, children acting out, domestic situations, landlord/tenant disputes, etc? They would be better assigned to calls they are trained and prepared for. Law enforcement could be better and more uniformly trained and held to national standards. Meanwhile those persons and agencies who are already trained and designated to handle cases that LEO’s are not and do not want to be called for could be better funded and put to better usage for all concerned.

Law enforcement would be relieved of tasks and situations that often end badly for all concerned. Professionals who are better trained would be better funded to do their jobs to the betterment of those they are aiding.

Agitated people (for whatever reason – medical conditions, emotional conditions, etc) would get help and should not be abused, arrested, or killed. Nine year old girls acting out would get counseling, not handcuffs. Hopefully the need for families to have “The Talk” would go away. Police could do their jobs better, be better trained on how to do things, including when to leave the task to those better equipped to handle it. Money could be better allocated to reach the purposes for which it is most needed.

It’s not about removing police departments – unless those departments are completely flawed and need to be replaced by better trained personnel held to higher and more uniform, indeed what should be national standards that are similar to most other nations. It’s about getting the money better spend and getting the appropriate response from the appropriate people to those who need the appropriate aid or action.

Irony would have him wearing an NRA t shirt.

BWAAAAAA HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAA!!!!! I love it when the left eventually turns and eats its own. And they do it. Every. Time.

Most of the stealing is done by politicians, and they don’t use guns.

One of history’s dumbest political slogans. it will live on for longer than we want. Unforced error by “progressives”.

Same old mislabeled trope. Time to give it a rest.

Ho. And hum.

How many tshirts like that have you actually seen, Breen?

Depresso Breen catering to the right-wing populists; it’s how he makes his quiche.

Mr. Breen, let us go for a little education, shall we? The Progressives have said over and over that they do not want to defund the police. It is a bad slogan NOT created by the Democratic Party.

However, it is helpful to understand the frustration that spawned that unhelpful slogan. In many if not most black neighborhoods, they actually would be safer with no police at all. Why? The police do not stop gang violence or even try in many cases. Rather, the harass, arrest, shake down, and kill black people who are doing nothing wrong. In a daily basis. For them, this cartoon is laughable. They truly feel that if the police went away, they would be safer.

For the rest of us, we believe that police forces around the country have forgotten they are our employees. They are supposed to be here to protect and serve, yet too often they protect and serve only the richest and best connected. They throw their power around far too much, they protect their own even when they are bad apples. The entire policing system in this country needs a complete overhaul. Funds need to be directed toward mental health, and trained mental health professionals need to be the first responders in mental health crises. The whole system of using cops as revenue collectors (ie., speeding tickets) is also abhorrent to cops and citizens alike.

Policing CAN be a positive for ALL Americans, but today it is being used as a wedge issue to divide Americans and keep far too many innocent people living in fear while not stopping the guilty from committing crimes — or even bringing them to justice.

Trouble is, nobody defunded the police, so this is not happening. Yes, crime is rising, especially murder. But tell me how more police would prevent that? I’ll wait.

“Defund the police” was (note past tense) supported by 18% of Democrats.

“Stop the steal” is (note present tense) supported by 68% of Republicans.

Which is a clearer and more present danger?

Poor Breen. Caught in ANOTHER lie….

Some “woke” liberals have woken to reality. They see that law enforcement is not the problem; it’s the solution. After partially defunding the Minneapolis police department this summer, many now think it was not such a good idea after all.

“Defund and abolish the police” was a leftist mantra that shocked law-abiding citizens everywhere. It delighted anarchists and spread like wildfire nationwide in 2020 thanks to leftist media, liberal politicians and corrupt universities.

The Minneapolis City Council not only sought to defund the police but officially petitioned the Minneapolis Charter Commission to disband the police on June 26, 2020. A referendum must approve the radical move.

In less than twelve months, the Minneapolis City Council has been mugged by reality. Council members now admit that their defunding of the police has been “misinterpreted” by almost everyone, including its own members. It is destroying the security of the community. They have now resolved to return $6.4 million to the police department’s budget.

The original concept was not to “Defund the Police” but to provide social services support in domestic violence cases. Unfortunately with tight municipal budgets, the opponents suggested all the funding must come out of police budgets.

The Republicans are promoting that they are the party of Law and Order and have co-opted this slogan in their propaganda against the Democrats. Look at the indictments against Republican administrations and you will see that the Rule of Law is not something that they support. The prior administration won’t even accept subpoenas from Congress.

In general, where police were "defunded,’ the rates were 5% or less [ even in Portland ]! In Democrat-led cities like Houston and Nashville, there was an increase in police funding. Overall, major crime rates are down.

High murder rates might be connected to high rates of gun ownership in USA — Not a problem in any other “advanced” country!

The slogan should have been to de-MILITARIZE the police. But small towns like Keene, NH need things like tanks.

The term “defund the police” is unfortunate because it allows people to deal out misinformation like this.

The purpose of the movement is to restructure how we respond to emergencies, especially those that are not criminal, taking the police out of it and using other, more-fitting, responses.

But cartoons like this skew that picture, substituting a cheap political dig for an effort to truly reform policing in a way that benefits us all.

That mugger looks in the words of juicy smolett to be a little tan.

No serious person with any power literally wants to do this. Please stop beating this dead horse.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if funding was reallocated so law enforcement can focus on violent crimes like muggings and leave domestic disturbances and other social issues with armed trained professionals? Yeah, I know. Unless there’s a cop on every corner, there’s still going to be a crime. Funding has little to do with it.

I seldom carry my phone or bill fold and you obviously don’t understand what “Defund the police” really means.

It’s a term that’s open to different interpretations in a blind interview. I think the intent was to demilitarize the police as a posse comitatas, where full lethal force becomes the default. But taken literally, it could be taken as a revenge response to eliminate a police presence totally in favor of social workers. Which ain’t gonna work.

Typical leftist Orwellian double think/speech. “DEFUND – THE – POLICE”. “WORDS – HAVE – MEANING”! You lefties have zero cred on this when your own Democrat politicians like AOC and Tlaib are still calling for defunding in specific detail. Seriously listen to yourselves. Duhhhh…defund the police doesn’t reeealy mean defund the police. BLM, AntiFa, anarchists believed it and Blue state and city politicians ACTED on it and actually did defund their police. You guys are starting to believe your own propaganda and are perfectly mimicking Marxist techniques of lies and disinformation. Most of America sees the reality of the left’s disastrous policies and are not buying it.

No irony; when’t the last time you’ve heard of someone getting mugged in a big city? Compare that with how many times there has been terrorist cops murdering American citizens in cold blood for no reason.

I’ll take my chance on the petty crooks to get rid of the Stormtrooper Terrorists in Uniform.

Police won’t end up solving the crime, or catching the robber. But police fans sure do like to pretend the police are a whole bunch of things they are not, like being good at their jobs.

Good one.