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Doing television is not nearly as easy as some folks make it seem.

There are women and men who do it for a living and they are so polished and so

professional it can create the appearance that it's easy but for the rest of us mere mortals and

especially guests on television we are going to say the wrong thing from time to

time or we're not going to communicate as precisely as we intend to.

There was an attorney on a show this past week discussing the movement to defund the police.

And this guest said, of course we need cops in certain situations but

there are many situations where we do not need cops and then he cited mental

health situations and domestic violence is two areas where maybe we didn't need the cops after all.

I don't know this guest. I've never spoken to him. Perhaps he did what I have done many times before which is not perfectly state what it was he was trying to communicate perhaps

It's really the substance of what he said or implied that I want us to focus on, this mistaken belief

that we don't need cops in mental health situations or in domestic violence situations.

And that's what this guest and others over the past weeks have said, that there are certain instances,

certain situations is the word they like to use. Where we probably don't need the police, not at least like we used to think we needed the police. So let's start with the obvious.

Domestic violence or interpersonal violence is a crime.

It's not a situation or an instance. It's a crime to strike a partner, it's a crime to create an atmosphere of fear or intimidation and threat.

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