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so confused at mamdani saying we need to defund the NYPD then backpedaling then saying he's not going to and isn't going to run on it
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Anonymous 6w

His position was always diverting funds to social workers so police could focus on actual crime

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Anonymous 6w

Cause there was a shooting

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Anonymous 6w

If you defund NYPD there will be a shitstorm of crime and lack of punishment.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

and you'd have to be pretty dumb to preach about defunding the police when there are shootings going on in your city

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

you are correct he would be pretty dumb, which is why during his mayoral campaign he has never said he would defund the police. All quotes referencing him wanting to defund the police are from tweets in 2020 and 2021. He has multiple times called for police reform such as stopping police officer from working 60-80 hours because that’s 20-40 hours in overtime pay and people have taken that to say he wants to defund the police

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6w

there were tweets that conservatives use where he outright called for the defunding of police, technically all diverting of police funds to other systems is defunding the police. The way to do it is to create a new officer position that is just a social worker with a badge and pretend like it’s a cop which idk why they don’t do more of

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

my bad, i wasn't aware of the dates but was presented with some clashing information so i was confused. i should've looked harder at the info. i'm not conservative, but was just confused because i didn't take him to be someone to go back on his words or promises

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

yeahhh because defunding the police definitely means just getting rid of all community safety systems and letting crime run rampant. are you stupid?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6w

So instead of name calling like a goofball how about you offer information about what defunding implies? Less funding means less police, which means less available officers, increased cold investigations, etc.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

why do i owe you an explanation of anything lol. you have two thumbs, you can do research on this. there are many different forms of community safety nets

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