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by slackfan 1241 days ago
Because we get a statement showing what the PD used our tax money for, every single year, vs the endless black hole of the IRS. Also we can fire and disband them if we so wish. For us "Defund the police" is not a toothless meme, it's a reality that we can implement if the police become a nuisance. For instance my town fired the entirety of its' PD a good decade ago.

Counterpoint; why do city folk hold their police deparments in such low regard and scream for their defunding yet somehow hold the federal enforcement agencies in some do-no-wrong-holier-than-thou limelight?
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scarface74 1241 days ago
I’ve never known federal police to stop and frisk, racial profile, be accused of police brutality or stop someone for “suspiciously” walking through his own neighborhood where the county is only 2.9% Black (my 6 foot 3 step son who grew up in the burbs all of his life), we lived in the most affluent county in the metro area (this was Atlanta metro not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and we had a household income twice the median since I work remotely for $BigTech.

But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”.

It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…

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jakelazaroff 1241 days ago
Are you serious? Look up COINTELPRO. The FBI very literally tried to blackmail MLK into committing suicide. They helped Chicago law enforcement assassinate Fred Hampton. They tried to undermine the civil rights movement at every turn.

When we say “defund the police”, it includes federal law enforcement.

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slackfan 1241 days ago
They absolutely do all of that, if you live within 100 miles of a federal border, and anywhere else they happent to have jurisdiction. Being detained by feds sans warrant is patently unfun, lemme tell you that.

I suppose I'm happy for you having the privilege to live such a sheltered life where you don't see any of this.

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scarface74 1241 days ago
You mean Customs and Border Protection - another department that is aggrandized by the same people who “Back the Blue”?
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slackfan 1240 days ago
No, I mean any and all Fed agencies, FBI, Border Patrol, Secret Service, etc, etc.

Yes, even the Postal Marshals.

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