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If the U.S. is such a free country...

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"The devil is in the details," as they say.

In Dallas, for instance, "defunding the police" was a matter of reducing the budget for sworn officer overtime in administrative desk work to hire more (lower paid) administrative workers to do that desk work. The sworn officers got less of their expensive overtime for sitting at desks doing administrative work--which is actually a good thing operationally--but are spending just as much time on patrol.

What you need to know in every case is whether they actually have fewer police on patrol.
 
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Probably because it is one of the freer countries.

If it were tightly run with secret police and electronic surveillance everywhere and a brutal penal system like many dictatorships operate, I am certain that there would be more of a deterrent to crime.

I'm not sure if you realise that that's not a plus in your favour.
 
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It's because America locks up so many of the undesirables in our society that we enjoy MORE freedom! We love freedom and people who do bad things must pay the ultimate prices for their misdeeds. And, yeah, sometimes we get a little "over-excited" and just lock people up because they look "wrong", but that's the price of so much freedom.

I'm calling Poe's Law on that one.
 
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Sorry, no. I'm a freedom loving American. I've loved freedom since I could first feel love for anything.
Can't lay it on quite that thick from the start, some subtlety has to be employed.
 
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If you're ever invHouston, you better do right

I lived in Houston most of my life. Moved to Dallas in 2005. From what I’ve seen the law is the law and police are still police no matter where you are. At least in America it seems to be that way.
 
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I lived in Houston most of my life. Moved to Dallas in 2005. From what I’ve seen the law is the law and police are still police no matter where you are. At least in America it seems to be that way.
Ya better not gamble, and ya better not fight.

 
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I lived in Houston most of my life. Moved to Dallas in 2005. From what I’ve seen the law is the law and police are still police no matter where you are. At least in America it seems to be that way.

I don't doubt that is so. In the USA.

Canada, Oz, probably anywhere in Europe
Japan.

Elsewhere, not so much
 
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