Defunding the police means taking away their armored personal carriers and assault rifles and stop letting them act like a completely untrained idiot army. We have a TRAINED national guard and military that knows how to go into combat without spraying bullets in the cardinal direction of someone that may or may not be doing anything wrong.
America's cops are mostly angry cowards who toggle between being so afraid of a traffic stop they hold their guns and tremble ask they ask for your ID.
They even think they see a weapon and they'll close their eyes and empty a clip in your direction- God forbid the guy standing in his own back yard doing nothing wrong reached in his pocket for his phone.
Most cops in the US want the power of being a pig, not to protect others.
They start being cops so the get to have a gun and arrest people. Not to protect them. Ask the students at Robb elementary why a 100 cops with all sorts of firearms, automatic weapons, body armor and 'training' stood down the hall cowering behind a corner while ONE KID actively shot others.
I've yet to see body cam footage of a cop discharging a firearm in a way that's acceptable. Every video shows a coward shooting in fear with dumb luck being the only reason they hit a target 10 feet away after completely emptying the clip with their eyes closed and spraying bullets in the general direction of 'the bad guy'.
American cops are rarely heros, most are controlling asshole with anger issues that couldn't find any other way to force their will on someone else. I know drug dealers and thieves that I'd trust my life to, but you'd be hard pressed to find a cop I would trust. Never once have I been involved with a cop for more than 30 manys that they weren't blatantly lying about what happened in order to make themselves look good.
Wake up call, police aren't your friends or helpers, most wouldn't know honor from a pile of dog shit.
That doesn't mean we turn a blind eye to petty crime like California is doing, but your little fantasy about it being because the dems 'refunded them' is fucking ignorant as shit