Deescalate The Police: A Theory

 After wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many changes were made to the training of Police, which inspired a military style force in the United States.  The mild-mannered police force was no more and what replaced it was a rabid-like, overly aggressive force, whose officers were more likely to use deadly force on a routine police stop.  Because of this uptick in police brutality, cities like, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Baltimore and a dozen more cities have all reduced police spending; they have chosen to defund the police.

This lack of policing of course has given way to an increasing amount of crime in these areas.  Cities that have chosen to defund the police have seen major upticks in murder and violent crimes.  It is my conclusion that we need the police, they play a critical role in this society; the rule of law plays a vital role in this society, we just need to reform the police officers who think that they are the law.  We need to remove the use of deadly force from routine police stops.  What we need to do is deescalate the police[Luke 12:58].  All the military style training that has been engrained in the police force needs to be removed, and police departments providing the proper training is essential to achieve this goal.  If you look at the FBI, for example, when their agents are responding to a domestic situation, they bring social workers along with them.  In cases where mental health is at the core of the problem, they bring psychiatrist to the scene; there is a ton of good behaviors that the police can learn from the FBI, and when was the last time you heard of an FBI agent abusing his power, or using deadly force on a routine stop?  We need FBI style training for our officers not military style training.  

So my friends I want to assure you that defunding the police is not the answer, deescalating them is!


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