How are you materially affected by the decision-making process, in regards to this situation? What stake(s) do you have in how this situation is resolved? Why does this situation demand your attention and commitment?

For this particular essay, you will reflect

upon how a critical situation of your choosing impacts your sense of self, well-being, and place in the world. How are you materially affected by the decision-making process, in regards to this situation?

What stake(s) do you have in how this situation is resolved? Why does this situation demand your attention and commitment? In other words, why does it call you to action or to voice?
It is my opinion that defunding the police is detrimental to the public as a whole but that of course effects me as well as I’m part of that “public”. I believe there are bad cops and good cops, there are bad people in every field. The situation requires bad cops and poor law enforcement to be rooted out and dealt with. I believe that defunding the police will lead to longer response times, and poorly trained officers which perpetuates the problem. As well as this, many officers are retiring and not as many are joining the force as before. This of course, leads to departments who are understaffed and in turn cannot respond to every call as fast or at all in some cases. Low morale is also a problem as who wants to be hated for doing your job. I found this Fox News article: (https://www.foxnews.com/us/defund-police-aftermath-created-ripple-effect-endangers-everyone-law-enforcement-source-says) which I feel sums up the problem fairly well but of course you are the expert so use whatever sources you want or need. I’m not positive how many sources I need and I don’t think she ever gave us a number. I just need a few sources atleast and cited in the default format for a college freshman. It’s three pages double-spaced. In terms of how this would effect me, it woud generally effect everyone, but as for me in particular, I’m an average college freshman so not much to say there. I go to Saint Joseph’s University. Of course you’re not me and this is partially about me so theres a few details. I don’t think you’d need much else. I was planning to do this myself but procrastinated and I have pretty bad ADHD which made it quite difficult. First time I’m using one of these services and I hope the last time but we’ll see I guess. I tried to use proper grammer here but I’m in a rush so it is 100% more of a stream of thoughts than anything. Sorry if I’ve filled this with unnecessary info or rambling haha. If you need anything the fastest way to contact me would be my number: 484-757-2379.