save money and time and to promote more certainty in outcomes. But the practice comes with "a very high cost,"
So it's done in the hopes that they are correct more times than not in hopes to save time and money. Though when they are wrong there is no check or balance towards this.
innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas because of the power prosecutors hold over them
To wave your power over someone else and get people to do your will. Who are you to wave your power over someone and say you did it admit to it. Innocent people get locked away because of this and I believe that it is outrageous.
innocent defendants who agree to falsely plead guilty, sometimes on the advice of their own lawyers
Why are lawyers telling people who are innocent to plea guilty. They take someone else's punishment and the person who really did the crime goes free.
The county now runs the department, and implemented de-escalation training, defined chokeholds as deadly force, and required that officers step in if a colleague is using excessive force. Officers were tasked with patrolling on foot, introducing themselves to residents, and hosting community barbecues. Violent crime dropped 42% between 2012 and 2019
This kind of speaks for itself but when the communities are close to one another they don't rob each other, injure each other, or any other criminal activity, because they have relationships, with fellow community members, their police force, and city workers.
Defunding the police could result in fewer crimes and less violence from police. During several weeks in 2014 and 2015, when New York City police pulled back on “broken windows” policing that focused on actively patrolling for low-level crimes, about 2,100 fewer major crimes were reported, which represents a 3-6% drop in a matter of weeks. If police are not actively patrolling for minor crimes and are responding to fewer major crimes, there are fewer opportunities for violence.
I don't quite understand what this paragraph is trying to say what I get from it is the police did less policing and thus less crimes were on record.
Low wages force many officers to take extra jobs, leaving them tired and unprepared to deal with a high-stress police situation.
People should be taking jobs to make a living and when you take a job as a police it's to make a difference. I wouldn't want to see a police officer working behind a convenient store in the middle of the night but what choice do they have. This shouldn't be a problem and cities, states, and as a nation we need to find a good way to fix it.
While there are multiple interpretations of “defund the police,” the basic definition is to move funding away from police departments and into community resources such as mental health experts, housing, and social workers. In the larger scope of the civil rights movement, some advocates would reallocate some police funding while keeping police departments, others would combine defunding with other police reforms such as body cameras and bias training, and others see defunding as a small step toward ultimately abolishing police departments and the prison system entirely.
Police Departments to some extent are connected to city governments and I would see it as beneficial if as a whole funding towards bias checks and peace training for officers as well as actual experts could work alongside on another to make a better system for all.