Policing Philly: My Philadelphia Weekly 'Crime Beat' Column On Retired Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Joseph P. Sullivan's Take On Defunding The Police And Chuck Peruto For DA

Philadelphia Weekly published my Crime Beat column on retired Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Joseph P. Sullivan's view of defunding the police and why he supports Chuck Peruto for Philadelphia DA.

You can read the column via the below link or the below page (click to enlarge):

Joseph P. Sullivan on Policing Philly - Philadelphia Weekly

You can also read my first column on Sullivan via the below link:

 Paul Davis On Crime: Speaking To Retired Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Joseph Sullivan 

Babylon Bee: Navy SEALs To Be Replaced With Social Workers

The Babylon Bee takes a satirical shot at the notion of defunding police departments. 

U.S.—The Navy SEALs are being disbanded and replaced with a new branch of the military: The United States Social Workers.

The social workers will be dropped into terrorist hideouts to talk with militants about their feelings and defuse the situation. The move was made as a push against police work and firearms continues across the nation. As people continue to call on police departments to be defunded, the next logical target was the Navy SEALs. 

You can read the rest of the humor piece via the below link:

https://babylonbee.com/news/navy-seals-to-be-replaced-with-social-workers 

Washington Times: Defund Police Cries Defy The Public's Trust, Support Of Police

David Sherfinski and S.A. Miller at the Washington Times offers a piece on a study that shows most people trust and support the police.

Calls to defund the police because of brutality and racism don’t match the experiences of most Americans when they call law enforcement for help, according to the most recent comprehensive national data collected by the Justice Department.

The overwhelming share of U.S. residents who in the past several years initiated contact with the police to request assistance said they were satisfied with the interaction, and a clear majority said the police improved the situation.

Among the millions of people who call police for help, whether for a mental health crisis, domestic violence incident or other emergency, an estimated 83% said they were satisfied with the police response and 59% said the police improved the situation, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Police-Public Contact Survey. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/9/police-responses-satisfy-most-americans-despite-de/ 

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