Senator Cassidy: ‘Defunding the Police Would Be Great for Robbers and Rapists’

EXCERPT:

CASSIDY: "Defunding the police would be great for robbers and rapists. The idea that you can have a modern society without police is absurd, but it us also counterproductive. You can reform police departments, those which have a problem, like Minneapolis clearly has, and make them something which works better for the community and which favorability rises with the community. New Orleans Police Department is a good example of that, where they put in training, for example, ethical policing that is courageous, in which if you have a senior officer on a beat with a rookie, the rookie has the right to put his shoulder upon the senior officer’s — his hand upon his shoulder and say, 'Listen, let me take over. This is going too far.' If that had been the case in Minneapolis, George Floyd would be alive. You can make these departments better departments. New Orleans is an example of that. But otherwise, don’t give favor to rapists and robbers."