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Week 3:
https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Academics/What%20Happends%20After
%20We%20Defund%20Police--June%202020.pdf
1. What makes this source of information credible?
This source is a scholarly article provided with factual support for defunding the police
from the school of law, the Criminal Justice System program from UCLA. It provides
specific references on alternatives to law enforcement when defunding the police.
2. How does the information in this source specifically relate to your topic?
This source provides ways in which police resources can be relocated into other law
enforcement to provide a different variety of community safety programs together with
the police.
3. How could this information be used to support your arguments?
Money needs to be put into other programs such as youth services, education, health
care, homelessness, and job training.
Week 4:
1. Why do you think this is a good topic for debate?
What makes it worthy of
consideration?
I believe that this is a good topic for debate since recently there have been many
protests over defunding the police. Many people are fighting for the defunding of the
police due to their misconduct and killings of innocent African Americans. This has led to
the question Should we defund the police? What makes it worthy is that many people
say that once the police are defunding then there will be no help and crime will increase.
Since police officers help to capture criminals and to solve murders. However, many
argue that funding community intervention will help communities with many issues that
have been overlooked and decrease crime. Or instead of defunding creating rehab-style
approaches for people who seek different kinds of help. Others believe that police
receive too much funding which has not decreased violence and has increased it.
2. Provide 2 potential valid arguments in favor of your position on the topic.
Why do you
think those are convincing?
Police should be defunded to create alternative law enforcement programs for
communities to decrease the number of situations that need intervention.
Police should be defunded due to their rates of misconduct and violence.
Extra Credit:
Week 5:
1. How convinced are you that the argument is "valid" (on a scale of 1-100%)?
Why?
Police should be defunded to create alternative law enforcement programs for
communities to decrease the number of situations that need intervention. Police are
overfunded and should be defunded due to their rates of misconduct. On a scale from
1-100, I would say that this argument is 90% valid since many resources have lacked
funding which has been the reason for problems. By defunding the police makes a
strong argument since it would bring programs that would not make policing weaker but
help them with intervention. I believe my argument is 90% valid since I will include a
rebuttal but my premises are true and the conclusion is true.
2. What would it take for you to change your mind?
It would take for me to see police spread their money around the police department by
creating different rehab programs for people. It would also take to see the police
department use their money on police training. Police can be capable of providing
safety with longer and better periods of training in different situations. To provide proper
educated training like in other countries where police misconduct is not a problem due
to the proper training. Unlike here in the United States, lack of police training and
uneducated situations has led to a huge amount of misconduct. Police also provide a
deterrent to criminals to scare people from committing crimes. However, at the same
time, many people are scared of police due to their common misconducts.
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