#defund-the-police

#defund-the-police

Most major US cities spend WAY TOO MUCH on police departments to police poverty & WAY TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, & housing to eliminate poverty. Fixing that is what the #Defund movement is about, declared Abdul El-Sayed in 2020. The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people, read another one of the thousands of tweets deleted by the progressive Democrat, who was also a CNN contributor at one point.

Many critiques of 'defund the police' stemmed from a misunderstanding that it implied total abolition, while proponents advocated for resource reallocation to community services.