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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Defund the police” is something woke people like to say but haven’t really thought through. [/quote]
No.  What a lazy knee-jerk answer.

Here is a better place to start.
[quote=Anonymous]Defund the police doesn't mean literally get rid of police and having no more police (a few mean that but most don't). It means that police are now responsible for areas that they didn't used to be, including mental health crises, homelessness, drug issues, school behavior issues, etc. that should be handled by other social services.

Defund the police means to shift some of the police budgets from the police to other social services, including community centers, youth leagues, social workers, home nurses and therapists, etc. Municipal funds can and should be reexamined and redistributed to invest in cities, not just tanks for police departments. What would you want to see to make your area a better place?  [/quote][/quote]

NP here. I get that defund the police doesn’t literally mean to abolish it, but only because I’ve taken to the time to dig into it a bit more online. I agree with another poster who said it’s poor messaging. Why even say “defund” something that you’re not really trying to defund. It just gives ammo to the Breibarts of the world to claim BLM wants to get rid of police altogether and then conservative boomers will forward these articles in emails as a scare tactic to make the protestor’s demands look crazy.

Why not something about “redefine policing” or something like that. There has got to be a better way to get the message across than “defund the police,” but not we don’t really mean defund, we just want to use the word defund and assume people know that isn’t what we actually mean.[/quote]

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