• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    In the cities in which the protests took place within America, I don’t know of a single one that lowered the funding for the police from 2020 levels. Most, maybe ALL including liberal bastion NYC, gave record increases to the policing budget. So from the metric of the stated goals of the protests, “Defund the Police,” it was a massive failure and waste of time and energy.

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      7 months ago

      But from the perspective of getting the public to take notice of ongoing police brutality?

      I have no idea. Lemmy’s pretty much an anti-pig echo chamber, and I couldn’t tell you the actual cultural zeitgeist on bootlicking

      Probably bad

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        Cultural Zeitgeist doesn’t matter since the purpose of the police is to keep the worst people in the world safe.