John Oliver Breaks Down What Defunding the Police Means

SHE is a powerhouse! Fugin awesome!

The way he said good night at the end made me cry

Wish I could watch it from australia!

I've been looking for her name. thank you!

Incredibly powerful, yes

True but also, Hassan Minhaj has better delivery in my opinion.

Miss Kindness I think his delivery is catered more towards a younger audience so we can start including them in the important conversations from a younger age. Both are great in their own merit.

Jas agreed!!!

What mic is he using?

@@misskindness2422 Jon Stewart is the GOAT

How messed up does someone have to be, to defend something that glorifies an institution that is responsible for starting a civil war and then a century-long reign of terror after they lost? Because white supremacy is "heritage"?

To people who say they belong in a museum, I'll say they belong to be dead and buried along with the figures and policies they promote. Not "promoted", promote.
Not to be remembered, not to be cherished.
They never should have been made in the first place. Why keep them around then?

Tskmaster they need to be remembered though. If you do not remember, you will forget. If you forget, it will repeat itself. That’s why here in Germany we are taught so goddamn much about WW2 and the Holocaust, and especially the Weimar Republic with Hitler’s rise to power. Not because we love talking about those topics, but because we know that we need to remember what our forefathers have done, so that we may not make the same mistakes ourselves. We owe it to the victims of those times, German or British, Russian or Jewish, American or Polish, etc. Sadly, Holocaust deniers are once again popping up in Germany; those who were alive at the time are dying off, and those denying individuals have either not received a good education about the Holocaust or have bought into conspiracy theories, now widely circulated due to the internet. This once again shows the importance of remembering history, both the good and (especially!) the bad, because if you’re not careful a relapse might happen faster than you think.

Museums are public places

What, the statues need to remembered or else what they represent will come back again?
Such racist feelings never went away, not once in a hundred and fifty years. It's time to stop dividing, time to let go.
Move on from the hate.
Just a simple thought for a "complex" subject.

Imagine if police departments were about 80% paramedics and healthcare professionals, 20% strongmen for only the most dire situations. Send in people who can really help those who are desperate instead of pointing guns at them.

Imagine how many fewer police and resources you would need in communities IF we end the RACIST *War on Drugs*

@TheBird2020 OK clever clogs...
Let's call it *"The Emergency Services Department"*
Primarily made up of medical first responders and the well trained transportation staff associated.
The *"ESD"* would also house the Fire crews and public security services (new name for police).
You wanna get caught up in the language and the naming of the new system, assweed?
...so get out of the new one, if you cannot lend a hand...For the times they are a'changin'.

TheBird2020 that’s actually one of the problems, police departments do too mich work. Sometimes they really do have to respond to medical emergencies because they’re the go-to institution in the area, and that’s no good.

Riiight. The police have to much to deal with. So they murder black people?? WRONG AF!!!

best comment.

This comment right here needs to get referenced on his show. 😏

@@rachelreed7870 that would truly be an honor XD Thank you for the optimism.

DemonDarakna you mean a hornbill? 😂

Imagine thinking John Oliver is being genuine or has ANY frame of reference for what he’s talking about 😂

At some point the police become just another Gang.

Lol small town. Try that in Chicago. You talkin out of your ass.

Wow

That wouldn’t work in our small town - the county cops are all related.

Jeremy C it’s a good start though. If the cops are corrupt, replace them all, and in a city as big as Chicago that change will probably have to be gradual, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Oh that's his home? I thought he got stuck in a shabby tiki bar talking into a camera which adds at least ten years.

That's because he is still feeling guilty of the whole blackface story and he is not yet comfortable to go back to his jolly personality.

It is because of audio delay and overlay. If he tries to talk while the guest is talking then it sounds like cats fighting in a metal trash can.

That might also be in part because zoom messes up when you talk over someone so he kinda has to stay quiet while his guests are speaking

Oh good!!! Maybe zoom will train him to stop interrupting his guests when he’s back on stage..... 🙀

He has a real big penis and he drinks lots of tea

Of the Duncan Principle?

#community

#sixseasonsandamovie

@@cougarkids4978 #andamovie

Or aids

@UsirRaMaroon Examples? Give us one. Just one.

@UsirRaMaroon You pull 1 sentence from the middle of an interview that can in no way cover the topic at hand, and you accuse HIM of cherry picking. It was in NO WAY a "breakdown". It doesn't even qualify as a brief summary. Exactly what one would expect from a 7 minute interview, as opposed to a 20 minute piece. And nothing was omitted, it's expected. It's in the name, i.e. "defund". It certainly doesn't mean take the fun out of it, but again, that's implied.
You repeatedly call him a liar and then say you like him? I don't like people that lie, but that's just me.
You say over 2/3 of his videos do this so I can only assume you've actually watched them. So pick one.

@UsirRaMaroon John didn't make this video. John didn't choose the title. This is not John's video. It's Jimmy's. This is in fact the Tonight Show channel. He set the pace, He asked the questions. And he stayed on that topic for approximately 90 seconds out of almost 7 and a half minutes

For that episode, it was almost like 60 minutes, zero humor

You know, the strange thing is, it feels like that's a recent invention. Nixon created the war of drugs, Bush created the war on terror. There were many times in _Recent_ history where America radically transformed.
Maybe it only works when it's about racism. I wonder how well a "war on illegal immigration" would have worked for Trump? Probably pretty good

me too. I don't miss the "HAHAHAHAHhahah" :D

Yes! I find all the nighttime hosts are more relaxed and relatable than ever before 👍🏻

Same.

He's far more enjoyable when he doesnt force himself into a role.

I think he is an introvert, like myself. We are more comfortable and relaxed when we are home. That probably has a factor.

That's what they started out being called.

Good idea 👍

In Ireland we call our police ‘the Guards’ (Gardaí)! They are unarmed and have a presence in all Irish communities but we also have a special armed response unit that is only deployed in appropriate circumstances. Works quite well here, we don’t have any problems with gun violence and/or police brutality

Yeah, changing the name is what they need. sure

To enforce the law

@Clark Kent You might be on to something there

But will those qualified mental health workers be willing to respond to some violent unstable person in unknown environment without police?
How much longer will be the response time to find particular type of special worker instead of police that is nearest to handle any situation??

@Clark Kent Dude its unrealistic. First there arent enough cops. They have hard time recruiting.
Then they dont handle single type of case all day. They have to be master of none type of people to get to any situation faster.
Also unknown mental people are hard to deal with. Police dont know what are their intentions. Some could be violent, others not.
Instead police should be better trained to handle all types of situation than hiring seperate people for different jobs because it wont work.

Frank Reynolds we used to have separate people do these things and it worked out better then and no we have too many cops right now especially since Clinton’s hiring of over 100,000 new officers back in the 90’s

@Clark Kent Like I said not enough cops to do specialized task. Also its extremely rare for cop to kill unstable person. Dont need all this unrealistic things.
They just need better training to handle all things properly.

I did and it was very good and calm and informative.... Everyone needs to watch it..

What’s the name of that episode?

G B it’s called Police

Kelly Rubio thank you Kelly!

He is as much part of the problem with his very selective coverage of the riots in India sometime back. Inciting more divisiveness in society from his far removed position, knowing full well the implication of schooling his audience about Indian politics without first acknowledging the British role in it. There's absolutely no need to amplify the role media figures play in this. Eod, this is their bread & butter. If society wasn't bad these people would be out of a job because satire won't be needed in an ideal society.

I think he has ADHD or something, he completely zones out as soon as John starts getting more technical on the topic and stopped listening just because his 5 year old silently spied on him. Everytime I see him host I wonder how anyone could find him talented at what he does, he is worlds apart from John Oliver or Graham Norton.

I mean they complicated issues that take effort to understand. I think it is important to realize that a lot of people famous and not are only really examining these issues critically for the first time and they are dense. Also he is a comedian that didn't have the exposure to political/news based comedy that Oliver, Noah, Colbert have sure he uses news for his bits but he doesn't add the information aspect in so it just may be a lack of exposure. Its painful but hopefully it becomes less painfully as time goes on.

Jimmy can never take a stand because it would hurt his brand. He avoids controversy to play it safe. He needs to protect his lifestyle, which includes earning lots of money.

Jimmy may not be my favorite late show host, but honestly I find him playing the everyday person. Lots of people are having issue with taking away funds from the police and most of it is from lack of education or having deaf ears to others problems. When you are a teacher, do you ask questions you already know the answer to? To me he is reaching a hand out, and asking his audience to catch up. Otherwise he wouldn’t have had Oliver on.

he shouldn't even try to care.....

A lot of Americans are responding to calls to defund the police. Gun sales are through the roof. People are taking protection into their own hands. A lot more people will be killed while unarmed than the 8 black people killed by the US police in 2019.

@@axe863 lmfao yes the 8 people that the police told on themselves about

Lobster Venus www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
The actual number was over 200, not 8 lmfao

@andrew miller exactly. we've been taught that we need police from a young age. to suggest otherwise suggests to some people that you are insulting their intelligence

It was always "this isn't the place or time"

Republicans do NOT actually agree, it doesn't matter how much you explain it.

It’s because we pick the dumbest slogans that allows the right wing to use our own slogan against us.

@@mikeunconfirmed1489 that is actually true... :(

Defund fits a sign. That is my only reasoning for the word choice but you're right

Defund is more accurate because the system is beyond reforms and redirection. It needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Yes, but it wont gain much traction. I too am agreeing with you in this matter. We should not sacrifice truth for traction.

It got you commenting

“Reform” would fit.

A resistance fighter... eh. Resisting who? Fighting for what? Not trying to be an ass, I’m genuinely curious.

@@silvussol8966 I didn't say he was one, just that he looks like one.

Ya, like a civil war. Patriotic Americans of all colors fighting the radicals yall allow to mind fuck you against your own country .

@@vegasgirl7O2 How can you say the protesters are not the patriots?

@@vegasgirl7O2 🤚 Back to Russia with you, Putin Troll! 😄

@@jomontanee
The bill of rights States peaceful protests. Have you lost your common sense with your love for country ?

@@adoxartist1258
Thats what you media educated fools like to say!
Research pro America news sources and educated yourself.

To be fair, and to hear all sides, the "us vs them" has a large basis in reality. Unlike policing a base, civilians have no order or structure. Half the time, they're uneducated, undisciplined, and dangerous. Having to deal with nightmare people every day, day in and day out, listening to these barely sentient animal people is enough to crush someone. I think that, more than racism, is what really turns cops bad. They see the worst of humanity every day, and lose sight of what they're really supposed to be doing. They're forced to play babysitter, only the children are oftentimes bigger than them, and oftentimes extremely dangerous.
But you're absolutely right in that the "us vs them" thing is an absolutely terrible way to go about it. It does _nothing_ to stop the problem, it only encourages it. It turns the entire thing into a war. And police officers aren't trained to be soldiers. Or mental health workers, or babysitters, yet they're asked to be all of those things. I think they need the training to manage those things. They need a more intensive entry regimen that focuses on weeding out the ones who can't make it, and preparing the ones who can for the crap they're about to deal with on the regular. I think they need regular wellness checks, to make sure that they're still fit, and to get them the help that they need, when they need it, so that when they're at their breaking point, there's a system in place to make sure they're taken care of _before_ they take it out on some dumb, unlucky punk.

Feel so good that many people from SE are Jimbo's fans. I am from Thailand. Hi!!!😘😍🤩

Jimmy is giving us a good example of how to be responsible Americans by being humble and having the challenging conversations we previously saved for ‘another time and place’.

@@autumnyoung8640 yes yes of course! i dont mind tho at all, instead i really do appreciate him for being this way especially with the current situation in America. moreover it is very very nice of him to have addressed his past mistake (which is like 2 decades ago and actually took a real man to do so) and stood back up after the backlash he has gotten couple weeks ago and now he is becoming a good man and a good example for everyone. that being said made me respect him even more 😊

@@autumnyoung8640 Jimmy Fallon and "challenging conversations" are two things that have never been put in one sentence unless you put the words "never has" in between them...

Fallon has always been about comedy and skits rather than deep conversation.

When you remove the laugh tracks, heavy producers, directors, and everything else...... He kinda falls apart

They both have different audiences to please. You don't go to Jimmy Fallon for deep insight.

Right. He was so angry. He cursed so much and told many people to f&#k off. It has millions of views yet is not trendy in KRplus. It baffles me.

@@clarapilier He also looked a bit teary as he signed off after that speech.

He doesnt sound like them though. Great mic.

I dont see how defunding them gets rid of the bad apples? If they have shit pay no one will want to join then they have to lower the standards to make up the manpower

@@Trapsarentgay133 think of it like Charter schools. Or private schools. They are basically competing against public schools and charters supposedly have more control over their hiring with no unions.

@@Trapsarentgay133 some people think public schools are bad, the teachers are overpaid and lazy and the kids are not getting a quality education. So, many people take their kids out of public schools but can't afford private schools so now they have Options.

Sunshine so have semi privatised police? Ancaps will love that

@@MisssKayy could you elsborate on how private police would be better?

He has American citizenship and is married to a US Army veteran.

@@MrEsandSecrets I'm aware, but it was easier just to call him an adorable Brit instead of "Even though he's a Brit who has now become an American citizen and is married to a lovely veteran of foreign war". No matter where he's from, where he's going, and no matter where he ends up, I repeat, he's a Gawd Dayum American treasure!

@@slamrahovart9024 very true. Rolls off the tongue much more easily too.

@UsirRaMaroon "reduce funding" is not synonymous with "defund".

@UsirRaMaroon I'd be delighted to.

@UsirRaMaroon Why abusing him when he asked a valid question? No problem if you don't know the meaning of the word "defund." You can always check it on dictionary.com.

@UsirRaMaroon okay Einstein, tell me the meaning of "defund" then?

@@joshuasirleaf7592 It means to discontinue the reception of funds. Aka cutting off financial support. It's a terrible idea.

Yeah, I think his view of the world has been turned over and shaken a bunch in the past couple weeks. It's actually refreshing to watch people change in ways that are appropriate to the situation. I think he's still learning a lot.

@Steing Groburf Corn Troll - io.

woke = dumb

Except I’m a little underwhelmed watching two white guys with few or no brown people on their professional staffs - from their attorneys to their accountants to their agents to their writers - “rage against the machine” from which they benefit and help to maintain. 😴

Steffen Bodar - it’s just more lame when they do it...

10 unarmed black men were killed by police past year, and half were reaching for weapons. This is neolib propaganda garbage so that once again there will be nobody working to end the CORPORATE rule in America.

This is wrong. If you want all people to change to not be racist by force and being angry? You will never change all people opinions. It's like trying to stop idiots who believe in flat earth. There always will be idiots. The only think is to understand that there are always some idiots among us, but that doesn't mean that everybody is idiot. You can change police, laws to try be more equal and have justice. But to think you will change all peoples opinions is disillusional. It's like protesting against criminality. You could protests everyday, but there still will be criminals out there and those protests would most likely make more violence. On the other hand if you would protest to change laws or police in some good way to make less crimes, then you could achieve something. But there always will be crimes and there always will be stupid cops no matter how much you try.

What transfers that

Tomáš Vorel I don’t disagree with you. I didn’t say that we can change everybody’s mind not to be racist. What I mean is that right now people around the world are outraged and horrified about what has been happening for years and demand a change in our system. This presents a real chance for something to actually change, in form of law, police reform etc. but only if this movement continues and not in two weeks time, when the media coverage lessens and the first shock is over everyone just forgets about it and goes back to normal like we have done every other time. These events have already changed many people’s minds simply because they were made aware of issues and unintentional contributions to the problem that they didn’t think much about before. But the goal is not to change EVERYBODY’S mind. There’ll always be racists, Donald Trump will always be racist. The goal is to get the issue of systemic racism to a point were it gets taken so seriously, that even people like him who are in power will agree to change laws and make reforms for the simple reason that the public outrage will not stop until they do. (And yes I know that our current president is a special kind of ignorant and stupid but as @Laura Shadforth pointed out there is something we can do about that, too and it’s called voting)

I hope people take this feeling to the voting booths

Not everyone who comes from Liverpool with the name John is a Beatle.

Nah. Just all English people look the same.

@@kurtvonuniverse7493 New York has Philip Glass, Billy Joel and Billy Crystal and they're pretty much identical.

So is Tucker Carlson.

That episode only just aired so he probably didn’t have a chance to sit down and watch it all yet tbf

Not everyone who watches Jimmy Fallon watches John Oliver. He is most likely asking because he’s a goon interviewer, giving someone their own platform to discuss something that will reach a different audience

It's just a joke, chill. Man! You must be fun at parties.

This is absolutely true. But it doesn't change the fact that an officer of the law just choked a dude to death while smiling and joking on camera.

Ex0dus111 So what is the issue in that case, the badge and what it’s core values are? Or the person behind it that has lost all empathy and sense of normality. Its a human problem.

@@user-fh5su4ui8w The word is culture. When a culture becomes toxic it's hard to undo.

@@Ex0dus111 Exactly. Well said.
And when the police culture get toxic it is hard not to get affected by it when within it.

Which is exactly what defunding is meant to aim. It's shittily worded, they don't mean to give the police less money, they mean to give them less workload. So that they don't get to the point of someone doing something he's totally unfit to to do.
I just hope that they don't stop there, and they they put more money back _into_ the system, in three categories: filtering, training, and support.
When people join up, there needs to be a strict, rigorous, Full Metal Jacket style bootcamp, to weed out the people who can't cut it. They're going to be enduring abuse and awful human beings every day. We can't afford to have people who let it get to them, out there on the streets.
After that, they need rigorous training to be able to deal with that. Not just physical, but psychological and emotional training, on how to deal with being used as a punching bag every day by your clientele: namely, drunk assholes. The tools they need to excel at their job doesn't end at a gun and a fancy chokehold maneuver.
And lastly, a proper support line. Psychologists to check on them, a community support to comfort them. So that at the end of the day, they aren't on their own with all this mental baggage, they have a safe and healthy outlet to vent. And trained professionals can monitor their health, and make the call if someone needs to take a vacation, or a desk job, or retire early.

"Whoops my kid came in"

Those who watch Fox aren't leftists, sorry.

Gotta pander to the racist black people of course.

@@Warrenmitchum what

Marcelo ARK by saying of course it affects minorities. Your making black people feel okay with being called victims.

@@Warrenmitchum petition to stop calling cancer patients cancer patients. Wouldn't want them to feel ok being called patients. It's not about making them feel anything? It's just reporting the facts hahah

@@Warrenmitchum totally, keep calling people victims and that's how they will see themselves, brandum Tatum, thomas sowell and kanye argue this

meeee

Me.

me

me... it's been like that for 24 hours now

Who remembers times without mass shootings? 🤔 notice how they stopped. maybe there is something way bigger happening

OR DE-ESCALATING

@@janellegard2581 Whatever it gets called, it needs to be something that doesn't have the perceived subtext of "get rid of the police completely". When you want major social change, you can't just rely on the people who already agree with you. You have to persuade the people who don't immediately agree with you to consider your perspective and come on-side.

@@markhammer643 completely agree!

We definitely need a new slogan. If I wore a tinfoil hat, I'd say it was invented by alt-right propagandaists to further the political divide. But I'm not, so I'll chalk it up to the lefts shitty PR abilities. It's about par for the course.
And yeah, that's the sad thing about history. We keep thinking "Oh, we're so much smarter than we were fifty years ago!" when in reality, we seem to keep making all the same mistakes, over and over again, when people have addressed issues many times over the years.
Hell, let's take a look at the infamous USSR. They're another great example. Russia is sick of being run by a greedy institution that forces them onto the streets and hoards all their wealth while treating them like shit. So they get up in arms, they behead the snake, and decide "Alright, this time we'll do it better!"
And what do they do? They install a greedy, _paranoid_ institution that hoards all their wealth, treats them like shit, _AND_ throws disconsenters into gulags. I just bet you that while someone watched their neighbor get hauled away by the KGB, they thought to themselves "it's their own fault for being ridiculous. We don't live in the Czar days any more, systemic injustice just isn't worth fighting over."

There was a terrific article in The Atlantic in 2018, that pitched the view that the role of any POTUS, as it has emerged over the years, is actually too much for a single person, and that the duties incumbent on the POTUS have accumulated and expanded over the years such that *nobody* can be "good at" the job. It was a very illuminating piece regarding the things that prior presidents did NOT do and were not expected to do. It wasn't pitched as any sort of excuse for the current POTUS; more like a reason why a) one now needs truly committed and capable people in the job, given how the role has expanded, b) maybe the role needs to be divvied up among multiple associate presidents or multiple vice-presidents in some formal way, and c) maybe our expectations need to be dialed back a bit.
In any event, I mention this because a similar sort of thing has happened to policing over the years. Fifty years back, walking the beat meant more "Move it along, buddy" directed at vagrants, and less attention to overdosing in the homeless, mental health, and domestic violence. Some of that difference may well be reflective of INdifference, insomuch as things like mental health issues and domestic violence is not exactly what you'd call a "new problem"; we simply ignored it previously. But whatever the reasons for the difference, the role of police has expanded well beyond the capabilities, training, and role of many of its members. Time to consider re-allocation of responsibilities and associated funding. You can't address all those things that make citizens unsafe and insecure with billy clubs, tasers, and tear gas.

It'll be just like the other times. We're all of us really good at forgetting what we were mad about a month ago

@@potaterjim I certainly hope not. I am really praying for police reform and accountability. An officer with so many terrible incidents on record should not be allowed back on the streets.

they already matched it. they torched and destroyed thousands of people's livelihoods.

@Dre Last lol

Yeah, people are dumb, hence youtubers with get rich quick schemes

andrew miller maybe if you watched you’d learn something, but with that attitude you’re obviously hopeless 👍

D T educating people about finances is a scheme?

andrew miller 😂😂 I’m the salesman who doesn’t sell anything?

@@TheWealthGenerator Potentially yes! Plenty of nominally "educational" content encourages bullishness towards particular investments for the channel's own ends.

same question

3:12 Wyatt Cenac’s “Problem Areas”

Same to you

Boiling in Alabama, but the birds are singing, so good enough. Back atcha.

Thank you 😊 ❤️

Thankfully, nobody has to be disillusioned when seeing John Oliver working from home. He's always going to look like a slightly startled toucan, and that's why we love him.

Not John Oliver. Fallon, hells yes.

They have a license to kill. People aren't nervous because they've done something, they're nervous because it doesn't _matter_, what matters is if the _police_ think they did, because the civilian has no power to resist the officer whatsoever. In fact, the mere attempt of preserving your rights or safety is a crime. How horrifically twisted is that? The act of rebellion is illegal. So what happens when injustice occurs? Who watches the watchmen? It's a "comply first, seek justice later" system. Except justice is _also_ their department. So there's this looming threat that can literally take you off the street and destroy your life on a whim. And we have them _just in case_ some one is doing something naughty, as defined by _them._ Oh yeah, they come with the added benefit that you can call them to help you when you're being wronged: Except, they wont defend you from most people because "It's a civil matter" (and they'll haul you away for fixing the problem yourself), if they _do_ come out, it's _after_ the person has escaped, and nine times out of ten they can't do anything about it, because they can't be expected to find one guy with a stolen purse in the middle of a city, can they?
So yeah, no shit people are nervous around police. I'd be nervous of a giant, slavering guard dog skulking around town looking for someone to maul too.

I would legit love to hear a forum on the matter, from the perspective of various experts and historians

First off it's just Community. Second he's been in more than just that 1 great show. 3rd how the hell does anyone not know John Oliver

@@FungiRy91 well not everyone lives in america and watching his show

Police are racist is a broad statement. There are a lot of good ones. A society without police would be rough going

@@reveredkiwi6164 The goal is to better the overall society so that police get phased out and technically speaking that has already been happening naturally just certain events put a buffering period on progress and makes it slow. It's like to solve obesity, instead of feeding everyone sugary foods we'll give em the healthy shit(ofc we'll never do this one because the food industry even made china bend to them). Also this will give so many people jobs if they're putting in place programs that are centered around mental health, while also improving our mental health crisis(but the overall scope of it still needs tweaking because it's so ludicrous on how impossible it is to get insured, find a specialist, and etc.). Really we'll just have to see how it goes but if the militarization of the police force that happened during Reagan era was possible, refunding the police could happen on a whim.

@@reveredkiwi6164 it is a broad statement for a problem that manifests in a broad spectrum of ways.

Ironically, it's noticeable how lame Johns puns are without the laugh track. It kind of feels like watching Big Bang Theory without the audience

Leave it to the left to have horrible PR
This is why we got trump in the first place...