It’s a double edged sword right?

Here in The Netherlands, are police hasn’t really been defunded per se, but significantly underfunded for quite some time now. Police are swamped and no longer have the numbers nor resources to take back control. Every year you see their grip loosening. Look at for example what happened during New Years eve, it’s become a national sport to throw illegal fireworks (which are basically bombs) at police and other public services. It gets worse every year. This is in a country where the police isn’t seen as the bad guy, the cops rarely shoot anyone, and if they do they get in lots of trouble, they must justify why they took the shot.

So I’m a bit conflicted with this post. On the one hand, it’s clear that the police in the US is abusing power and has probably gotten too strong, therefore defunding could be solution. At the same time, I’m seeing what defunding, or at least under funding, is doing to my country.

Counter point, ever person advocating for the complete abolishment of the police with no concept of a replacement law enforcement service seems to believe that there are zero bad guys.

Let’s get real, jealousy is human, most people don’t really act on it, some people will.

As long as we live in societies we will need some kind of system that upholds the rules, if not police, then some other concept.

As for how many bad guys there are, I will absolutely agree that the number of true bad guys are probably way less than the paranoid people claim.