Defund the police was a bad slogan, which is why it took massive expenditures of political and financial capital along with the deployment of widespread state violence to suppress it, and also why everyone knows it and we're still talking about it five years later
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The “centrists” are now regretting their “principled” stance against demilitarizing police. They let the MSM and GOP highjack that narrative, and then gave up. That’s the issue.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5015030/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-2020-george-floyd-protests-hospice-care
It's not defund the police as much as it
is arrest, prosecute and imprison the
bad cops, which sometimes seem to
outnumber the good cops.
Policing needs fundamental changes in culture and practice. It's not just a question of having or allowing bad cops - we've literally built a system that *manufactures* bad cops.
Cop shoots someone in the eye with a LTL round, cop should be shot in the eye with an LTL round.
Cop chokes someone out and kills them, cop breaks into the wrong home and shoots them, etc.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-like-the-ideas-behind-defunding-the-police-more-than-the-slogan-itself/