You're absolutely supposed to get angry– these cops attacked an innocent man, tased him, and stole 4 months of his life. I'm not sure why you'd think you're supposed to forget, though.
However, here is the question to everyone reading this article. How many of you are projecting this angry to the all policemen, the whole police system, institution and law enforcement? How much of you say " what we could do to make police better?" how much of you say "police is evil and we will defund police" maybe think about why?
The reason why people say defund the police is because "we'll make it better!" is the same repeated statements that have gone literally nowhere, police abuse continues unchecked to the point where we have to write and publicly humiliate public officials to do their damn jobs.
Any stats about a rise in crime is very misleading. The cause of the rise in crime is in no way related to systematic policy changes in funding because there have been no changes made.
It means different things to different people. Some want to literally abolish police, some want to reduce funding.
No. They say "this current implementation of our police force are constantly committing evil acts and we should decide as a society whether that is acceptable".
Maybe you should think about why you think your opinion is superior to theirs. I imagine you're not on the receiving end of said evil acts. Dismissing the pain of members of the same society as you seems a bit rough, in my opinion.
That’s why “defund the police” got started: just build a new system that actually works to “protect and serve” where old entrenched interests have no power to block progress. The police can still have some role, but it will be diminished and vestigial.
To fix policing we need real transparency, and real accountability. I don’t think we want an opaque, unaccountable organization with a legal monopoly on violence roaming our streets, do you? So why are police so resistant to being held accountable, the way we all are in our roles in society? If any other organization were throwing grenades into cribs and tasering innocent people, there would be immediate and fundamental changes to bring that behavior to a grinding halt. But because it’s “the police” we tolerate this. Why?
The problem is: how do you get this off the ground? Well the obvious way would be to take the money that the police spend on mental health calls and use some of that to fund the helper force. The problem is when you take money away from one group to give to another, there's always going to be objections, and that's what I think happens a lot of the time. I think the police like their role in society, and don't want to give it up quietly.