The Executive Committee of the Guilford County Democratic Party recently passed a resolution calling for defunding the Greensboro Police Department.
According to the Democratic Party newsletter, the resolution was done in conjunction with Greensboro Rising.
The resolution states, “Reduce funding to the police, so they cannot buy militarized weapons to harm us and redirect funding to Crisis Intervention and Recreation Centers.”
Under that heading the resolution states:
“a. Invest in mental health workers to develop an in-house, adequately funded 311 number to give residents an alternative in crisis situations to calling the police. Residents should be able to access trained crisis workers – mental health providers and social workers to de-escalate and address a situation.”
“b. Invest in more funding for organizations that act as alternatives to the police for interventions in mental health, sexual harassment, and domestic violence situations.
“c. Invest in city recreation centers, to create safe, fun and well funded spaces and full-staffed programs for our youth.
“d. Fund these programs with money that is normally spent on weapons, new cars, new policing gadgets, ATVS, segways, trainings that tell police officers to attack the public and promote the ‘Warrior Mentality,’ teargas, and rubber bullets. Fund these programs with money spent setting up check-points to shake down vulnerable people with expired plates and insurance, and money spent “preemptively” profiling Black people.”
The resolution also calls for prohibiting the use of chemical agents, sound cannons “and bullets-rubber or otherwise on groups of civilians.”
It also calls for ending arrests for marijuana possession and for an ordinance that “Spells out and limits the types of force and/or weapons that can be used to respond to specific situations.”
The resolution specifically deals with the death of Marcus Deon Smith and calls for the city to publicly apologize and compensate the family of Smith for his death. It also states, “Fire the officers and their supervisors who helped cover up the homicide for their wrongdoing, demand that the county fire the paramedics involved” and also calls for creating a memorial to honor the life of Smith and other victims of police violence in Greensboro.
The full resolution can be found here: Resolution
Sounds like a good plan to reduce property tax and sales tax revenue. Also a great way to drive investment away from the area.
Hopefully they don’t take over the Board of Commissioners. They already run the Sheriff’s Office.
The good news is this would help the surrounding counties: Alamance, Davidson, Rockingham, and Randolph. I think Forsyth is gone.
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That was written by people that know nothing about law enforcement, the work they do, the NC General Statutes or even common sense. But knowing the people on that committee and their extreme positions, this ridiculous document does not surprise me. I just hate they are hiding behind calling themselves the “Democratic” party. This nonsense is radical extremism. Marxist.
I totally agree
Well why not prepare everyone a gourmet meal every evening and, as they are enjoying their meal, have members of the police dance on top of the table in a Tutu!
I initially thought or maybe was hoping that This stupid idea of defunding the Police was from some radical left wing hack! Now, I’m. Truly amazed at how this thing has infected some people’s brIan’!! This is worst than COVID 19!!
YOU ABSOLUTE IDIOTS, GET THE HELL OUT OF GREENSBORO! If you want the POLICE defunded, then take your crazy asses elsewhere, like say, New York, Seattle or any other lawless city!!!!! I want the POLICE TO PROTECT ME!!!!
You tell ’em, gal! Words right out of my mouth.
If they want to remove the police dept from our lives and sense of security, I hope all members and officers of the DNC will post all their names and phone numbers so we will know who to call, when we need law enforcement. I bet that will be a short list.
I want to see one of them go into a domestic disturbamce ,with the couple both drinking, and with guns in the house. They should be able to talk that one off the wall.
Maybe they should do a ride along with the police on a weekend night for the whole shift. Let them see the real world and hopefully some protestors. I bet they will stay in the car with the doors locked.
This defunding the police is getting rediculous. I can’t believe that an intelligent person would even consider this.
You are basing this on people with long criminal records, drug use, illegal firearms, and not following the law or police officers when you are stopped, and they face the reactions to their unlawful action All they had to do is stop and listen, very simple.
All these so call martyrs need to be looked into, and decide do you really want to base law and order on what they have done? You are just telling people , especially the young kids that this behavior is of the norm, and is totally acceptable.
If you want to really help, go into these communities where there is so much violence , where people are killing those of their own race. Go to where the problem is, don’t add to it.
When you send out your letters of whom to vote for, maybe you could mention they are commiting genocide of their own race , especially children.
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You may want to remind them when they are tearing down statues of Abe Lincoln, it was he, a Republican, that freed the slaves , which was why the Civil War was fought.
This madness has to stop, before you know it, their will no longer be laws or law enforcement. Just a country of criminals, killing, looting, robbing, home invasions, rapes, and the list goes on and on !!
You are allowing what the other countries in this world want to happen…the downfall of the United States of America !! You are playing right into their hands. Can you imagine our country if the Democrats have their way ? Look at the Dem controlled cities now, not a pretty site.
Look at Greensboro…What happened to our city?…..Nancy Vaughn and her minions is what happened !!
All I can say about the DNC and their ideas, is when it comes to not having law and order in our country….You can’t cure stupid !!!!!!!!!!
Be prepared to defend yourselves, at home, in out in the city.
AMEN!! When I lived in Guilford County in the 1980’s and early ’90’s and worked at the battered women’s shelter, I will never forget seeing a White police officer bringing a distraught Black lady and her children to the shelter himself. He was holding a baby wrapped in her pink blanket and was speaking soft, reassuring words to that family. He rescued them! We also depended on the police to escort abused women to be able to go back to their homes to gather more belongings without being harmed. Had these officers been unarmed–or nonexistent–DV victims would remain powerless against their assailants. And BTW, who do you want gathering evidence at a crime scene–the police department’s forensic tech or…a social worker??
These people are delusional. This isn’t the 40’s anymore. As soon as they refund the police and someone breaks into their who’s gonna stop em. The rich that are calling for it will be the first to cry for it when they need it.
Just added a little something yesterday.
I am shocked…shocked that the Guilford County branch of the (Nationalist Socialist) Democrat Party would even consider such an anti law enforcement, pro mob rule resolution.
NOT!!!
Obviously they are pro Antifa, pro anarchy, pro let the animals run wild, much like the people who laughingly calll themselves “leaders”.
If the government wants to give a voice to this idiocy, just run a test program for a week. Let all social workers and mental health workers sign up to be called out and give the police as a whole the week off. Let’s see what happens.
It is up to everyone to take the yoke of understanding for themselves and determine what some of these buzzwords mean that both political parties are tossing around. Defunding doesn’t mean dismantling the police department – it means redistributing funds to other organizations within a community that also server the public interest and have been shown to play a role in crime reduction, social justice and equality (including economic issues).
To jump to an extreme – such as “wait for these people to need the police” – is nonsensical and prevents a meaningful dialogue from happening.
The whole point is to start a conversation on what is working and what is failing in our communities. Might everyone be reminded that when the process to identify a new police chief for Greensboro began the number one characteristic was honesty that the community wanted to see in that individual. Clearly, there is a reason that was chosen above all other descriptors.
Finally, if there is any type of injustice or inequality in our communities – whether it happens to us or whether or not we believe it exists – needs to be investigated and rooted out. We are only as strong as our weakest member.
Well then, perhaps the instigators of this “movement” should better consider their catch phrases. “Defund” is not a conversation starter, nor are areas like CHOP, nor is dumping 1/6th of NYPD’s budget, nor is defunding the GPD SRO program. If the push was for change and improvement, perhaps those words and the message may have been better received. Defund means exactly what the perveyors of that message want it to mean. You can couch it with as many “Yeah buts” as you want. It does not change the words and actions of the group pushing the message.
Besides, if the issue with police is the quality of their work, I have never heard of slashing budgets improving quality. Cutting the budget means losing pay, training, and equipment. You will lose what little quality might remain in short order. How about raising police standards and then raise the pay to attract highly qualified people to live up to those standards.
The public wants perfect performance at a cut rate price…and now they want to cut the price even more. Defund is ignorant at best, malicious at worst. It would be like going in for surgery where tue hospital’s funds were just slashed. No one would feel comfortable going under the knife of the cut rate doctor.
Wow and I bet your favorite song is Kum Ba Yah and love downtown Asheville. The city can take money from a lot of different areas than the police who are actually underfunded right now . It is amazing how people that have never been faced with a drunken large man , or a raging woman think they know how to work things out. Get yourself a scanner , find a domestic going on, and go on over . Talk the man or woman or teenager down from hurting others or themselves. Love your last sentence ,,, “whether or not we believe it exists ” ?? I just can’t ,,, SMH
I concur.
#wordsalad
I hope you are not as dumb as you seem. Read this article again and tell me these radicals don’t want to abolish the police. You’re as stupid as they are . It will never happen. Are YOU going to face down a bunch of idiots with guns in their hands and hate in their hearts?
Ah yes it comes out that they want weed legalized in the county. Maybe this is why this is so off-the-wall in not making sense! Are these folks in the party staying impaired?
And just where do they think they will find these rambo mental health workers? And ones who would go into a situation without police protection? Spouting reason against a Glock 9? HA!
Let’s make this real simple. No law enforcement of any kind. Everyone wears six shooters on their hips. If you don’t like someone or a situation, just call them out into the street. See who can draw the fastest. One dies and goes to boothill, the other moves on. Wait, I’ve been watching too many westerns; we’ve already moved past those days or have we?
Whenever I hear the word “invest” from the government, I hear that giant sucking sound in my wallet. Or that other word “fund”. My wallet just made a big sighing sound. How about we just defund the government? That is the only way I can think of to stop it. It is nothing but extortion. “The power to tax is the power to destroy”.
The Democrat party is now the Marxist party. What they want is total control, so they can line their pockets by destroying our liberties; pero como nuestros amigos viejos, Senores Chavez y Maduro.
There is a new version of “ABC” in North Carolina – “Anybody but Coop”. Anybody but Biden….anybody.
This resolution assures the flight of businesses and individuals that bear the brunt of city and county taxes.
Look for neighboring cities and counties, save for Forsyth and Winston-Salem, to begin overtures to businesses and the sane, sensible taxpayers will follow.
Sad to see a political party attempt to ruin what so many that have gone before them worked so hard to build.
See you in Archdale!
They now leave NO doubt that liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Obviously pandering to the mob/gang vote. I cannot think of ANY other reason to entertain such suicidal resolution.
Our police are not failing us. Our politicians and other community leaders are failing us. These demands to defund the police are coming from the most radical members of the Left who have sadly taken over the Democratic Party. Typically it’s the younger white liberals who support defunding. But I’ve seen interviews with inner city blacks who do not support defunding the police. They say there’s too much crime already and they need the police. I think this is yet another case of liberals thinking they know what is best for the poor black man, and that’s a form of racism in itself.
We have caught doctors and nurses Intentionally killing Patients – let’s defund the hospitals!
We have had airline pilots that purposely crashed their planes and killed hundreds of people at a time, let’s defund the airline industry!!
There are bad apples in every bunch, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!
Another attempt by the radical Marxist of the Democratic Party, mostly of the Minority population, who want to do drugs, not obtain auto insurance, and not pay for license tag renewal, or pay any tax of any kind. Taking money from Law Enforcement and giving it to “Social Workers” to perform citizen protection and peace protection is like giving a free hand to criminals. Social Workers can not enforce any law, and are not equipped and trained to deal with aggressive violence. Police Officers know that one of the most dangerous situations to be in is a Domestic Dispute. More often than not, one of the parties wants the other arrested and put into jail. How will a Social Worker handle this ? What happens when one or both of the spouses turn on the Social Workers? No matter what all this is is a method of NOT enforcing Laws. If the citizens do not want, insurance, marijuana, domestic violence laws enforced, then have them removed from the Statutes, and be done with it at the election polls, thru state ballots ! These Marxists just want NO Law Enforcement in their communities. I say dont supply them with law enforcement, then maybe they will kill each other off and peace will return to the city !!!
The resolution begins with a lie, so anything after that is just crap!
Demoncratic Party Do you realize without our Police Dept. you will see your businesses move out of town and Greensboro may be a ghost town in a few years. When you put a group together you will have few to make mistakes, even the group that you put together are capable of making mistakes, and this is a big mistake. When you have people together there has to be laws and people to enforce them. Even God gave us The Ten Commandments which are laws. Think about this resolution or do you want us to be like Nazi’s and Hitler.
Some the ideas of this group have some merit. Prevention is always a good thing. But what they are missing is the fact the some people are going to do whatever they want no matter how much intervention you provide. If we defund the police department, I for one will move my family out of this city because I will no longer feel safe in Greensboro. Evil does exist is this world. It always has and always will.
Some wise words below written for the people of North Carolina. By the people of North Carolina.
Our Government has FAILED ALL Residents of North Carolina!
North Carolina Constitution link – https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Constitution/NCConstitution.html
Section 1. The equality and rights of persons.
We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sec. 2. Sovereignty of the people.
All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.
Sec. 3. Internal government of the State.
The people of this State have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, and of altering or abolishing their Constitution and form of government whenever it may be necessary to their safety and happiness; but every such right shall be exercised in pursuance of law and consistently with the Constitution of the United States.