Could defunding the police help stop anti-Black racism?

Former OPP commissioner Chris Lewis and Black Lives Matter’s Sandy Hudson debate if defunding the police is the answer to stop racism.

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37 comments

  1. Rural crime is rampant, but let’s defund the RCMP. Oh but also take away everyone’s guns. What could POSSIBLY go wrong.

    1. It probably won’t even happen. They probably won’t even defund the police in the states either it’s just talk until everything cools down…..

    1. @Take PRIDE in your mental illness this month. I would say I’m a liberal and I don’t agree with this. Don’t bring insane either/or American politics into this. I think we are better than that.

    2. Cyrene the Cat you’re right…liberalism is a mental illness…it takes away ones ability to think rationally.

  2. Why is this even being discussed?? So you want to have total Anarchy!! Help, my bank is being robbed send a social worker!! Remember those Mad Max movies!! That’s our future!! A total free for all!!

    1. I’m thinking it would be more along the lines of Robocop, where the police are bought out by a major corporation, probably Burger King, so they can do any illegal activity they want with no repercussions.

  3. What’s the plan after this theoretical defunding? No civilized society functions without some form of policing.
    Blindly regurgitating left wing talking points without forethought or solutions is just rage baiting.
    Reforming law enforcement gradually with a clear plan is the solution.

  4. Screw the special interest groups. Canadian’s want law and order not anarchy Promoted by BLM

    1. Then you better start playing around the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s*****$##%%##^^$***&%%**^#@@$$&. That’s all……..

    1. Co-founder of BLM who hasn’t used any of the funding for social programs or helping other poor minorities. She’s been pocketing money.

  5. Sure. Let’s get rid of the military and the courts while we’re at it. Let’s erase national boundaries, trash the Coast Guard, shutter the prisons and disband the CBSA.

    I’m ashamed of my generation.

  6. If you defund the police, you cut the essential training and we’ll get more incidents like this

    1. Yeah ..I’m Independent, not radical either right or left ,and I agree ,, cant have no police ..

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