“Defunding the Police” Needs to Happen.
Because police don’t recognize when they are failures.
Empty Words from a former President
If you believe, as I do, that we should be able to reform the criminal-justice system so that it’s not biased and treats everybody fairly, I guess you can use a snappy slogan, like “defund the police.”
But, you know, you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done. ~ Barrack Obama, 44th President of the United States
Thank you for that unsolicited input President Obama.
Before we get started, I have to address the fact that it’s fascinating to watch former President Obama seek to share word towards what the protester should do versus what the police should do. Why are comments toward the underprivileged so swift to leave his tongue? Why does the same tongue sitting on perch does not possess word of advice to police officers? After all, it’s not like he has the political capital to lose. Obama has been president before. The only next thing possible is to sit on the Supreme Court (like William Howard Taft). It doesn’t seem like he aspires to do such. So why hold tongue? After all, it’s the police who are effectively engaging in criminal…