The George Floyd Case Discussion Thread

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The idea of defunding police is to replace police with specialized response teams. If you have a violent, dangerous situation, you would have police-like units responding with appropriate force. But, there are plenty of situations where armed response does not make things better. Do you need guns and a show of deadly force to apprehend someone for passing a fake bill or committing fraud? I mean, you don't want an army of therapists responding to an active shooter situation in a school, but those are the people you do want on the scene once it's not active!

I feel like there should be a revision of standards for police, if you're going to keep them around. They should be highly educated, carefully vetted, and operate under the strictest scrutiny. And then, paid a lot better. And then, every police department in America must purge its forces of every cop with a history of violence, aggression, bigotry or criminal activity. Police should be treated and compensated like professionals. Right now, we pay cops poorly, which means that we are hiring lots of cops who should never be cops, and we have cities on fire because we are getting what we pay for. 

by the way, the shop owner who received the fake bill from George Floyd has publicly come out in support of the protests, and does not believe Floyd was even aware the bill was fake.