GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Green Bay’s Police Chief is weighing in on calls to “Defund the Police”
Police Chief Andrew Smith appeared Thursday on WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’, and he says he doesn’t think people calling for the defunding of police have thought their position through.
“Who’s going to investigate the shootings? Who’s going to investigate the homicides? Who’s going to arrest the wanted people?” asked Smith. “If that’s an experiment that they’re gonna try there, it’s a very interesting experiment, and I hope they don’t try it in Green Bay anytime soon.”
Smith argues that there will always be work that police will have to do. He says the department does a lot to deter and prevent crime before it occurs.
“In our department we have two full time mental health officers that go out with a county social worker every day trying to help people,” Smith explained. “We’re trying to prevent them from becoming a police problem.”
“Defund the Police” has become a rallying cry among those protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Minneapolis City Council members have pledged to defund and disolve their police.
