From: Ken <Ken@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Yet another stupid idea from Kamela's past
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:04:40 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
NoBody wrote:
> Vice President Kamala Harris once promoted the idea where police
> officers were no longer needed as first responders in American
> communities, in a surprisingly naive assessment of law enforcement
> considering her background.
>
> In June 2019, then-Senator Kamala Harris appeared at the Poor Peopleâs
> Campaign Forum as a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary
> where she was asked about demilitarizing police departments across the
> country.
>
> But Harris appeared interested in taking police departments out of the
> business of responding to public calls for help such as 911 first
> response.
>
> â[W]e really need to get to a point where communities frankly donât
> need, donât need a law enforcement response to whatâs happening in
> their communities because they are safe communities,â Harris said.
>
> 'Defund the police' advocates argue that a better response to 911
> calls would be publicly funded unarmed mental health professionals, to
> prevent violent clashes with suspected criminals.
>
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13766309/kamala-harris-defund-police-911-calls.html
>
How anyone could seriously be considering voting for her is hard to
imagine. I know there are voters who hate Trump so much that it is
driving their decision. But I wish they would consider what their life
will be like if she is elected and does what she said she wants to do.