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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently learned from activists that defund the police doesn’t mean abolish the police it means cut their funding down to limit spending on weapons and surveillance tech. That makes sense to me. Horrible slogan though. [/quote]

It means different things to different people.  Most seem to mean more extensive changes than what you described, although not as radical as truly disbanding the police altogether.[/quote]

A majority of Minneapolis council members want to dismantle the city’s police department because, in their view, it cannot be reformed.

The term “defund” is not defined as merely reducing funding to something; it’s defined as preventing something from receiving funding. I suspect more Americans mentally associate the term with disbanding or dismantling the police, just like we we’re seeing in Minneapolis.

Reforming the police is a policy position that is likely understood and accepted by a majority of Americans. Defunding the police will meet significant opposition by voters, and will likely hurt Democrats politically in November.

If the “activists” don’t mean “dismantle the police” when they say “defund the police”, then they need a new tagline...quickly.
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