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Defund the police was an unpopular slogan. 'Redistribute some police funding to social services, education, mental health, and unarmed crisis interventions' doesn't fit on a T-shirt. When faced with a dangerous family situation, there's no one else to call for help.
Defund the police was unpopular because the rightwing weaponised it and made it so.
Any phrase you use will be made unpopular, even something as basic, positive, and explanatory as “walkable cities”.
The issue isn’t the phrase you use, it’s not defending them well enough from malicious actors.
The right-wing weaponized it and most news outlets did nothing to push back against them.
There were various reports of "huge crime spikes" in certain cities following announcements by local politicians that the local PD were going to be defunded, but in most cases that never even happened, and in some cases the spending on police even went up by a couple of percent.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/defunding-claims-police-funding-increased-us-cities/story?id=91511971
Sorry, I strongly disagree. It's a dumb slogan that says, "Get rid of the police!". Once that idea is in people's heads, there no explaining what it really means.
nah man, abolish the police... fuckem ACAB
Exactly. Abolish police. Abolish prisons. Abolish people's right to carry guns. Only then can we have the truly peaceful society we want.