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When the banks failed a while back and they were bailed out, the top people at the banks still got their bonuses. Their reasoning? If you didn't pay the best employees, they would leave. If top executives of banks deserve high salaries even though they fucked up, why can't anyone see that a big part of the problem is how much cops are paid. It's a shitty job that gets zero respect and requires you to literally risk your life doing it.Advocating to reduce police funding while also reforming the police is A tier retarded. (S tier is reserved for "abolish the police people.)
Reforms cost money. You have to pay for studies, pilot programs, and retraining.
It doesn't just magically happen.
There are only 2 types of people who will go into that line of work:
- Law and Order / Idealists: These are the people who admire police and think of them as protecting good people from the bad guys. They think they can really make a difference. They accept the lower pay because they think that they are doing valuable work.
- People who love power and love being able to lord it over others. These people will accept the low pay because what they really want is the power trip. These are the bad cops.
If you want better cops, you need more money, not less. Higher salaries attract a larger pool of applicants and you can screen out more applicants instead of just finding enough warm bodies to throw out on the streets.
There's also other issues like cops refusing to rat out other cops, corruption, etc. --so it isn't as simple as just pay them more money. But if you want to fix things, the last thing you should is defund them. That's beyond stupid.