“Not only have the police been defunded in some places, they've been demonized and face a more difficult environment to do their jobs,” Smith says.
Since people are starting to get tired of police-related violence, people will begin to retaliate against the police and see them as their enemy and not as people who can protect them.
. Murders are actually more prevalent in states where the majority voted for Donald Trump than in those that supported Joe Biden in 2020. A report from the center-left think tank Third Way found that Trump states had a 40 percent higher per capita murder rate in 2020 than Biden states.21
I wonder if the crime rates in Republican states are higher because there's a higher percentage of people who own guns than in Democratic states?
We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police,” Biden said during his State of the Union address in March. “The answer is to fund the police … with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.”9
I agree with Biden's statement. The police should not be defunded or have their budgets cut. Defunding the police would only motivate the police to do better at their job if they are getting paid less. Police at least deserve more training as they go through many situations for which they have yet to get actual training for.
“It's not that the whole society fell apart,” he says, “It's just that there are enough people who were already living on the edge, and this pushed them off of it.”
I completely agree with this statement. Before covid hit, there were people who were struggling economically, facing poverty, battling addiction and so much more. When covid hit, it made their situations even worse than they were before.