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The Shameful Consequences of “Defund the Police”
“Defund the Police” was about punishing working-class police officers- not improving social services or public safety.
When you realize you are standing in a hole, the old saying goes, stop digging.
Though conservatives wept and gnashed their teeth, police unions bellowed, and moderate Democrats threw their hands up in frustration, some members of the progressive left have been determined to “defund the police” for over a year now.
Whatever the cost.
Even as the terrible consequences of this misguided movement to defund, and demoralize, police officers nationwide, become more clear by the day, some far-left progressive activists remain intent on pushing forward.
Why would they do so in the face of indisputable proof that such policies have made life worse for the very people they claim to want to help?
Simple: Because “Defund the Police,” was not a strategy for criminal justice reform, and it was never meant as such. “Defund” wasn’t an effort aimed at improving social services for those in need.
Defund the police was an effort to punish police departments.
The tax largesse of the U.S. government is a vast, deep well. There was no reason for better-funded social services to be tied in…