Not around here. No defunding going on here. Local churches (not the restaurant) have been donating to the departments. No rioting or protesting going on.
My brother-in-law has been a cop for close to 30 years and it really is sad to see what all of this is doing to all the good cops out there. I thought he was still a homicide detective but I saw him on the 4th and he was telling me that he was put in charge of internal affairs last year. He said his department was surrounded by protesters last month, who trashed the property and demanded they be defunded, but his department he only had 1 unjustified assault during the last year. He said they have to investigate plenty of “excessive force” complaints but a lot of those are from putting cuffs on too tight, or forcing someone into a patrol car too hard, but nothing that put anyone in a hospital or worse. He told me that what was an honorable career for the last 30 years has been destroyed and he feels like people look at him as a terrorist now. It’s sad how many people fail to remember all the good cops out there.
Then we go to the other side of this whole mess, which is my sister-in-law who has fallen into this whole defund the police bullshit. She was a parole officer for 19 years, quit her job during the “me too” movement because she thought she deserved to be treated better by the male parolees and male coworkers, and she’s been living in my house for free for over 5 years and doesn’t contribute to the mortgage or utilities. She still had the job when she moved in, which was only supposed to be for “no more than a year” while she saved up for a down payment for a new rental, but then she quit her job and has been mooching off us since. She asked me if I could put an AC unit in her bedroom the other day and it took everything in my power not to laugh. I don’t need one in my bedroom so I’m certainly not going to pay for the additional electricity to pay for her to be more comfortable in my house where she’s living for free. My wife is finally really close to kicking her ass to the curb.