Considering that many police are called in to do the jobs that social workers, firefighters, EMTs, etc. should be doing, in the case of defunding any sufficiently well-behaved cop should perhaps be offered the option to be hired and retrained to do these other jobs which are socially necessary and which reinforce public safety. The more unhinged ones and military veterans who haven't yet done something worth throwing them in prison for should still be fired, but they might need some sort of serious rehabilitation or re-education.
More or less, yes. At the same time, you have to do something with the cops that are already making a living being cops but have no redeemable motivation. You can't just fire them and re-educate them, you have to give them some bullshit busy-box so they don't go Richard Dorner on everone. Maybe we make them the Mall Cops 3 days a week and the real Mall Cops take the other 4 days.
Considering that many police are called in to do the jobs that social workers, firefighters, EMTs, etc. should be doing, in the case of defunding any sufficiently well-behaved cop should perhaps be offered the option to be hired and retrained to do these other jobs which are socially necessary and which reinforce public safety. The more unhinged ones and military veterans who haven't yet done something worth throwing them in prison for should still be fired, but they might need some sort of serious rehabilitation or re-education.
More or less, yes. At the same time, you have to do something with the cops that are already making a living being cops but have no redeemable motivation. You can't just fire them and re-educate them, you have to give them some bullshit busy-box so they don't go Richard Dorner on everone. Maybe we make them the Mall Cops 3 days a week and the real Mall Cops take the other 4 days.