The call for defunding the police isn't meant to cut their pay, or even to eliminate the police.
It's to stop sending police armed with lethal weaponry to scenarios that don't require it. Homelessness, poverty, drug abuse, and mental disorders are things that cops are not equipped to deal with, yet we send cops to deal with them. Defunding the police means to stop sending cops to those instances and instead funnel the money into social programs to deal with them.
It's to stop sending police armed with lethal weaponry to scenarios that don't require it. Homelessness, poverty, drug abuse, and mental disorders are things that cops are not equipped to deal with, yet we send cops to deal with them. Defunding the police means to stop sending cops to those instances and instead funnel the money into social programs to deal with them.