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>>c420+(OP)
The NYPD and other big city police departments have been buying and using the same tools as the IC for years. When you hear about 'dual use' tech like Palantir, after DOD/IC these companies immediately target and sell to domestic law enforcement, from the FBI all the way down to the local PD.

I don't want to defund the police; I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers.

EDIT: Slashing funding ≠ defunding. It's a terrible, terrible argument that makes no sense, alienates people who'd otherwise support a more reasonable approach, and perfectly embodies the 'all or nothing' style of modern day performance politics.

>>23B1+un
> I don't want to defund the police; I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers.

The only way this can be achieved is through defunding the police. Take away all of their military arsenal budget, cyber spy budget, money for pensions...

The good that money could do the communities it's currently actively harming is almost unfathomable.

>>hypeit+uo
Absolute rubbish. Police are a necessary part of a peaceable society; 'Defund the police' is virtue signaling for wealthy people who live in safe neighborhoods and who've never experienced real violence.