r/sandiego • u/NochillWill123 City Heights • 2d ago

San Diego police non-emergency is a joke

Today I woke up to a car blocking the drive way I was in and had to goto work. Called 3 different towing companies all said need to call police since it’s public street. Then I called the non emergency hotline and cops never showed up . I guess people can get away with parking where ever on the street .

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u/TheWayofTheSchwartz 2d ago

I work with LEO and they say the exact same thing. Defund the police, but shrink their area of responsibility to just what they're really trained to do so they can do it well.

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u/GrammerSnob 2d ago

The shitty thing is that a politician running for office would take the totally reasonable thing that I wrote and turn it into "Grammersnob wants to cut police funding because he's a communist who loves crime!" or some bullshit and people eat it up.

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u/TheWayofTheSchwartz 2d ago

Right. We need a new moniker for the movement. Something like, "Let police focus on crime." We could describe it as "Focusing the police force," or something like that.

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u/GrammerSnob 2d ago

You're exactly right.

Honestly, the left sucks at branding. It's always bothered me to see my side be so inept.

"Defund the police" is a bad way to get people on board with reallocating resources to actually HELP POLICE do their job.

"Black Lives Matter" practically invites the "but but All lives Matter" response, and then we get mired in arguing semantics rather than the actual heart of the issue, which is that racism is bad. Maybe that should be the new slogan: "Racism is bad".

"LGBTIAQ2S+" is the punchline of a joke that writes itself as more letters and symbols are added. Same with the rainbow flag adding more and more stripes and colors for the various marginalized groups. The point of the rainbow flag was to include everyone across all spectrums, and I submit "Don't be a dick to people who aren't like you" as a new slogan.

Ugh, now I'm all wound up... :)

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u/youneverknow2018 1d ago

It isn’t bad branding, it’s horrible policy.

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u/GrammerSnob 1d ago

Which one, and why?

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u/youneverknow2018 1d ago

Defund the police, open borders, men in women’s sports, high taxes, government control - take your pick.

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u/GrammerSnob 1d ago

Totally. Those would all be awful policies if they actually existed.

But you're making my point for me... The left is awful at branding, making it too easy for the right-wing propaganda machine to repackage and respin and fool their low-intelligence sheep consumers.

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u/youneverknow2018 10h ago

Those are actual policies. Pretending they aren’t does not make it so. This isn’t propaganda by the right.

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u/GrammerSnob 9h ago

You said “take my pick”, so I choose “open borders”.

Show me where the Harris campaign explicitly called for “open borders”.

Or admit that that phrase is a Republican catchphrase, not an actual mainstream policy.

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u/youneverknow2018 10h ago

Missed the part about low intelligence, didn’t take long for the calling of names. At least the right knows what a woman is.

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u/GrammerSnob 9h ago

“Missed the part about low intelligence”

Missed that part, did you?

For what it’s worth, I wasn’t calling you any names. I don’t even know anything about you. But I do think propaganda works, and it makes me sad.