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Yes, BLM progressives who are making inroads with their defund the police movement are a “small group of people”. /s

You can’t back up your weak argument beyond repeatedly referencing flat earthers



Yes: they are a very small group of people, repudiated so decisively in the last Democratic primary cycle that Brandon Johnson had to run anti-defund in the Chicago mayoral runoff. Nobody is winding down the police. You've gone a little on tilt here.


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> 50 million people nationwide

Seems high. Got a source? Being a decentralized movement, I doubt that all BLM supporters support defunding the police.


Support is falling, but it’s still surprisingly high.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/07/usa-...


This doesn't really mean much. People mean wildly different things by the term "defund", or by "redirecting resources". My municipality will start redirecting resources to non-police response in the coming year, in particular for after-the-fact responses to things like minor residential burglary (people stealing weed whackers from garages). Is that "defund"? People will say it is, but you know who else supports the move? Our local police department.

Police departments have been complaining for decades that they've been drafted into all sorts of roles they're not trained to do (or that are less important than the crime suppression role they're meant to have). Long before George Floyd, my cop acquaintances were complaining about how police are pulled into mental health wellness checking. The centerpiece of most named "defund" movements around the US has been non-police mental health response --- which, again, is something police generally agree with.

Nobody is winding down police forces.




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