Comment Re:I hope (Score 4, Informative) 144
"Defund the police" doesn't mean to shut down all policing. It means to redistribute some of the many duties we heap on the police to other, more qualified, groups. For example, police shouldn't be required to mediate a domestic dispute on their own. There should be someone available we the training to do that, perhaps accompanied by the police, but in any event capable on their own to handle it. In this case, police should be a second resort. "Defund the police" means let the police focus on law enforcement and fund accordingly.