{"id":6869,"date":"2020-06-09T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:15:42","slug":"on-defunding-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/on-defunding-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"On defunding the police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fun story! When I was 18 or 19, the father of a friend of mine was a union organizer. That was a his job: to travel the country and help people who wanted to form unions to do that. He said that one of the questions he got most often from business owners was, &#8220;What can I do to keep my employees from forming a union?&#8221; His answer was, &#8220;Treat your employees fairly, and pay them fairly, and they&#8217;ll never want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know a few people who think calls to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/06\/us\/what-is-defund-police-trnd\/index.html\">defund the police<\/a> (which really means to demilitarize them, and spend that money to actually help people, instead) or even disband the police (such as in Minneapolis, where the police are a criminal gang in black uniforms) are bizarre. Madness. An invitation to chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to know how you keep people from de-funding or disbanding your police department? You treat them with respect. You de-escalate rather than escalate. You don&#8217;t assault and murder them. 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