I'm curious. Did you talk to them in person?
they want us to defund the police
do you agree with that?
"Defund" is a loaded word, with multiple interpretations. I think I'm in the majority when I don't think of defund as disbanding. I don't think it's the best word that could've been used because it strikes fear in the hearts of law and order middle America. But on the other hand, as a way of getting their attention, it certainly worked. It's a word that sticks.
Broadly sketched, I agree we should at the least: review and reallocate funding. Fund less police hardware, fund more community-supporting social outreach. Demilitarize. Even Espy said it bothered him that the police looked like the military. It bothers me a lot that we look like a police state. We need way better police training in de-escalation, we have to weed out the white supremacists.There needs to be more transparency, more accountability.
For starters. We need to reform the justice system, stop privatizing prisons, end stop-and-frisk, fix the bail system, reform sentencing guidelines.
