On: Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force

[Gunax]

This is what will happen when you defund the police.

Its not the end if law enforcement, it's the end of equal (supposedly) law enforcement.

[banana_maker → Gunax]

Adequately funded police can still take forever to arrive or decide not to come at all. This has absolutely zero to do with defunding police. Which by the way doesn't mean taking -all- of their money away. It means readjusting their budgets and allocating some of that money to other types of responders.

There always has been a market for immediate response private security, if one has the money.

[ummonk → banana_maker]

Theoretically, a well-funded government police force could actually provide some on-demand services like this to the general public.

[realmod → Gunax]

The reality is that police funding has maintained even throughout the "defund movement", so this situation is not caused by police defunding.