NO. 2
Defunding the police? I couldn’t believe this when I heard it. No civilization can exist without law and order and where we live – law and order is the the police!
But they did defund the police. And so now we do not have law and order to the point where crime is right in your face in these little coastal towns. The Oregon governor is asking for a tax to be put on our homes to pay for law and order otherwise known as Public Safety.
You know what – Lets just fund the police again – OK
Are there things wrong with the police – yes – can they be addressed? yes Usually these things can be addressed by hiring requirements and screening, and training. Screen out the bullies, screen out the personalities that don’t match with good policing/public relations.
Really – it is hard to be a police person – they do face danger every day – don’t forget that. I do know that there are cops that like to harass people, certain types of people, and I think they pick on the citizens who will easily react badly to being harassed. I have seen this happen here. That is a really bad thing but you know what they say about the baby and the bathwater. Don’t throw out the baby along with the dirty bathwater.
Don’t defund the police because if you do crime will escalate. And it has, terribly -right in your face!
Tillamook county is not favorable to policing. The commissioners tried to cut positions but due to citizen action did not. We might not need more police if we could put the offenders behind bars and have a stiff penalty.
The criminals around here might not be hard to catch but the police cannot arrest them or if they do they are right back on the street again.
More taxes will not fix this.
More money for more police. Not more money for the governor – because she will not spend it on policing.
1. There are more criminals on the street because we have not taken care of the problem of providing for more public defenders.
2. There are more criminals on the street because the state decided to defund the police.
leading to more crime and increasing the number of murders.
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