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applegrove

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5. They need to have the money to do things like mental health lead by a counsellor traiined
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 06:39 PM
Jan 2023

in psychiatric crisis especially. Somewhere in Canada is doing a test unit and they reduce those going both to jail and those going to hospitals. Like by 75 % or so. That saves money. Things like that. Frankly police in many parts of the USA are paid shit wages. There is some propaganda that you don't want police to be too smart. Ridiculous. You get what you pay for and Republicans seem to want isolated police who are incompetent. They seem to want dead Americans if you look at GOP policies over the years. Police are just another tool in the NRA, anti-mask, end medicare, end ss, end obamacare, ignore climate change toolbox. I would not add to that toolbox by isolating police from their communities any more.

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