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It's a discussion worth having but time and place guys. Sadly what Camden NJ, and others places(reorganize the city to disband the PD, and importantly the union that wouldn't allow any change to policy or termination of any officer without multiple hearings even after being arrested and convicted, made county PD with fewer officers and more community policing with assistance from non-officer response teams for medical, homeless and mental health issues), did is getting lost in the side noise and police unions pushing their insanity. All we get the usual American it must be this or that politics. There's ZERO middle any more and the media drives that point home hard and convinces everyone that's what the country wants. There's a reason why local governments tend to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal at the same time. NE states manage to have Republican governors often but almost always nationally heavily Democrat. Local elections get much less pressure media coverage and people choose based on the candidate not the party. Nationally it's all my party or nothing.
And the (insert color of the newly offended party here) Lives Matter stuff just makes things worse for everyone. It's hard to say hey numbnuts STFU to a paying customer and the race teams are NASCAR's customers too, but in this case Nascar should have taken the team aside and said WTF, really? One of my friends shared the posting of it's not ONLY black lives matter, it's maybe we look at this now and see what people are talking about. Everyone's lives matter but maybe there is something else here to consider for a moment.
LONG rant over and hopefully made sense cause the political landscape and sheer stupidity of large groups of humans doesn't. And it's starting to make me stupid. Or at least seriously consider kicking all of Congress out and starting over with all new people and term limits.
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