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@ISIDEWITHAnswersCriminal IssuesStarted 4yrs agoActive 1yr ago

No, and abolish the police

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 @9FFLNNBfrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

We still have many weapons that aren't used by the Police like more Swat should be used because in many situations there are situations police can't come to help you in

 @9F867K9from Alberta  disagreed…1yr1Y

Police serve a vital role in the community, and receive almost no support for it. Governments have taken an anti-police approach, and many people uneducated on their local police departments may be prone to an anti-police viewpoint. How can a system change when it is being removed of it's budget. In order for the system to change, the police require public support.

 @9H5JSPPfrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

if we get rid of the police, we will not be able to enforce laws and we will be no different than savages. we have laws to keep us safe, otherwise, there would be no one to help us if there is a school shooting or bomb threats, as no one would be able to respond

 @9FLT8HNfrom Alberta  disagreed…1yr1Y

how will the world be safe if there is no one protecting it no one else is willing to risk there life to save other people

 @9FLLD8RConservativefrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

Police serve a vital role in the community, and receive almost no support for it. Governments have taken an anti-police approach, and many people uneducated on their local police departments may be prone to an anti-police viewpoint. How can a system change when it is being removed of it's budget. In order for the system to change, the police require public support.

 @9FDQLJZfrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

Abolishing the police has the potential to lead to increased crime rate, however, police should be held under a stricter lense to ensure power is not being misused

 @9FBQ4CJConservativefrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

People are not going to stop committing crimes, therefore police need effective equipment to stop these crimes.

 @9FBJXFRfrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

The police protect us and why would you want to demilitarize the people that protect us. No need to abolish it the people that protect our lives.

 @9FBD7NLConservativefrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

Abolishing the police will lead to higher crime rates. This will lead to unsafe areas and unenforced laws

 @9F8QL2RConservativefrom Ontario  disagreed…1yr1Y

We need the police to function as a society and you are just mad at them because they are like you parents

 @9FDKQQNfrom British Columbia  disagreed…1yr1Y

Abolishing the police will lead to higher crime rates. This will lead to unsafe areas and unenforced laws

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1mo1MO

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CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President-elect Donald Trump’s team missed Pete Hegseth’s payoff to a sexual assault accuser when they vetted him to be secretary of defense.Hegseth is among a raft of cabinet picks facing tough confirmations, and who aren’t being subjected to the customary FBI checks, instead being vetted by private firms. Over the weekend, Hegseth’s attorney dropped the bomb that there was a confidential settlement with a woman who accused the former Fox News host of sexual assault. On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman revealed that her sources in Trump world did not know about the payoff, which was missed in the vetting “because it was a private settlement”HABERMAN: There’s more concern from some people around Trump than there is from Trump himself, about this whole issue. Trump has really dug in, and has told advisers that he is going to stick with Hegseth. Now, we’ll see if anything else emerges.They did do a vet, we are told. This did not show up, this issue, because it was a private settlement, according to the people, who were briefed on what took place. Trump really likes Pete Hegseth. But this did introduce the thing Trump doesn’t like, which is an element of surprise and a negative headline. And so, we will see where this goes.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

Inside the Podcast Revolution: Trump’s Unfiltered Strategy and Harris’s ‘Meltdown’ Risk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk attributed President-elect Trump’s election victory, at least in part, to the lengthy podcast interviews he did during the campaign.In an interview late Tuesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk said Trump’s podcast appearances showed the American public that he was a normal person.“I think it made a big difference that President Trump and soon-to-be Vice President Vance went on lengthy podcasts,” Musk said in the interview.“I think this really makes a difference because people look at, like, Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is great, and Lex Fridman’s and the All-In podcast, and, you know, to a reasonable-minded, smart person — who’s not, like, hardcore one way or the other — they just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether, you know, you’re a good person, whether they like you,” he added, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.Trump conducted many interviews with new media during his campaign, as well as with legacy news organizations such as Fox News.Last month, he joined Joe Rogan’s podcast for a 3-hour long interview. The celebrity host later endorsed his candidacy.His opponent, Vice President Harris, did not appear on Rogan’s podcast because, according to “The Joe Rogan Experience” host, the Harris campaign only had an hour and required him to travel to her. Rogan said he felt “strongly” that the “best way to do” an interview with the vice president would have been in his studio in Austin, Texas.Musk recalled posting on his social platform X account that “nothing would do more damage” to Harris’s campaign than going on Rogan’s podcast, “because she would run out of non-sequiturs after about 45 minutes.”“You can’t hide for three hours,” Carlson replied.Musk added, “Yeah, like, hour two and three would be a complete melted puddle of nonsense. So it would just be absolute game over. That’s why she didn’t go on.”“But on the other hand, Trump, he’s there, and there’s no, there’s no talking points,” the Tesla CEO continued. “He’s just being a normal person who’s having a conversation, and doing three hours of Rogan, no problem.”

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Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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