No, I do not want to defund the Police. I would like to see the budgets cut back with the monies used for revived social services. Slowly taken beginning with Reagan, bringing us to the point we are at now.
I would like to see the agency’s work hand in hand and not for protection of each other but in action for the communities. We have lost social workers and supportive services and burdened our peace officers with para military training and not peacekeeping. Not investigative work to catch and reform but the quickest win for them budgetarily. Sadly, some budgets are based on the number of arrests, the number of closed cases. Not the success of a peaceful community. The truth being the greater crime the greater the rewards.
I have issue with the Federal Government giving out military gear to police departments. To give without providing ability to maintain the special equipment places burden on the community it can ill afford. Adults, like children will go for the biggest the shiniest tool in the box for the smallest of problems. Bringing a tank to an overly large birthday parking issue or full riot gear to nonpayment of a latte is over kill. I think a better way would be give equipment to the states with the financial burden carried state wide. In the area of large states regional facilities again with the burden carried by the towns within. There may be a time the equipment is necessary, but not business as usual.
I would like the power of fear removed from Police Union hands. Wielded to cover the bad deed by some and corrupting all. The ability to have a “Blue Flu” in response to an investigation of one’s own needs to stop. The process of investigations and penalties for those who act against and not for the community need to see daylight. I do believe the union is needed; I also believe its powers have grown to large. They have sacrificed the good to protect the bad, and faith has not just been compromised but lost.
I would like to see the churches taxed. It does not need to be a full assessment but just the same taxed. On property and income. Clergy as well. Take the ability to get rich and hide income no others have. Make the church show just where offerings go. Just how much is administration. Tax exempt collages usually give the host community an annual stipend in leu of tax, Nonprofits are held to strict standards of expenditures. Our churches have slipped through and should be held to the same whatever the faith be.
I would enjoy the medical community to work as a team. So much has been learned about the body it is now doled out piecemeal to specialists who don’t seem to ever speak to one another. Notes. They rely on notes. Usually cold scientific words giving no knowledge of the patients’ attitude or carriage. No ability to question and search for an answer that may be missed in conversation. I know, we have PCP’s. Not enough. They don’t always get to ask and search either. They are placed by insurance companies and health corporations to be clearing houses recommending specialists. We need doctors that doctor. Not the double booked fifteen minuet sessions with a referral and script at the end. A follow up in six weeks for the same issue and a new script. Health care should not have a profit motive with unlimited potential. Its success rate should be measured in the number of helped and not earnings.
One of our misguided decisions has been cameras in government and courts. The entertainment value has taken over governing and law for those who grandstand and act out. I do believe we have the right to know the proceedings, however there need to be proceedings. I see our elected representatives in committees not asking questions or allowing answers but giving voice to the lowest base mentality simply to show off for those at home. Accomplishing nothing for us, and costing everything. I also see lawyers and judges in courts believing they are staring in their own series, few even mug for the camera. Doing a disservice to the client, the profession and the system. Maybe a scale back to radio could cure that illness. To be only heard and not seen, to be taken for your word without the theatrics could bring us back to actual accomplishments with honor.
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