Massa'Bator Cory Booker Gave a Sarcastic Speech Denouncing "Defund the Police" b/c Replacing Cops w/Private Security who are Accountable, Controllable, Hirable and Fireable by Citizens is a Crazy Idea

WHY CAN’T POLICE BE PRIVATIZED? “DEFUND THE POLICE” IS REALLY JUST A MEANINGLESS SLOGAN ON A SIGN. AT BEST IT IS AN ILL CONCEIVED PLAN TO SOMEHOW STOP POLICE BRUTALITY BY GIVING THE POLICE SMALLER BUDGETS. BUT HAVING LESS MONEY WILL HAVE no effect on authority, which is the problem AND THEREFORE could never STOP UNCONTROLLABLE POLICE FROM INITIATING, UNPROVOKED VIOLENCE ON PEOPLE OR INTERFERING WITH THEIR RIGHTS WHENEVER THEY DEEM IT NECESSARY. HOWEVER, “Defund cops” could simply mean community hired and fired trained PRIVATE security workers who have a contractual duty to aid people in peril and a natural right to come to the defense of others but who have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on people. UNDER SUCH A CIRCUMSTANCE, there would be no need for a police department.

If a “public servant," such as a police officer, is uncontrollable, unaccountable, can’t be hired or fired by you, has irresponsible power over you and provides a compulsory “service” then he is actually your Master. [MORE]

From [HERE] Senator Cory Booker (D-New York), a vocal proponent of criminal justice reform in the US, has rubbed some people the wrong way with a sarcasm-dripping endorsement of a measure against defunding the police.

Booker delivered an impassioned short speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday as the chamber worked through a grueling 13-hour vote-a-rama on hundreds of proposed amendments to the bipartisan infrastructure bill. He offered a full-throated backing to a “gift” of a proposal to “establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to decreasing federal funding for local jurisdictions that defund the police.”

“If it wasn’t [a] complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama,” Booker said, referring to the Republican author of the amendment, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who had the floor right before him.

“Thank God, because there are some people who’ve said that there are members of this deliberative body that want to defund the police, to my horror,” the senator from New Jersey continued, saying that a vote on Tuberville’s proposal will “put to bed this scurrilous accusation.”

I would ask unanimous consent to add something else to this obvious bill. Can we add also that every senator here wants us to fund the police, believe in God, country, and apple pie?

His call for unanimity was apparently heard, as all 99 present senators voted to pass the amendment.

Booker was never a fan of the slogan but is a vocal advocate of reforming the criminal justice system, including by reducing the role of the police in things like responding to mental health emergencies. Many supporters of the slogan call for the same things. Meanwhile proof of a white over black police state exists in New Jersey, the state he represents. [MORE]