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The Bad Economics of Defund the Police

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This is probably one of the most ridiculous memes I've seen. The meme has been used by leftists or communists to show why we need to defund the police. To defund means to remove funding. To defund the police means to remove funding from the police . The representation of leftists and/or communists is that the police must be defunded in favor of education, universal healthcare, youth services, housing, and other community reinvestments. This has me concerned about the move to defund the police because it means removing funding from the police in favor of other functions. An incident in Cebu City last May 26, 2022, had me scared. It should be a very big concern when the CCLEX, Carbon, and two other areas in Cebu City were given bomb threats. I couldn't imagine for a bit what happened in the United States of America (USA) happened in Cebu City. The incident involving the late George Floyd years ago was caused by police brutality. I'm not going to deny that police brutality exi