Oy, some protesters chanted something and all of a sudden the same meaning is applied to the entire movement and that the entire Democratic Party supports this? This is the Simone Biles of mental gymnastics.
If the entire movement was for this, then it violates common sense and deserves no consideration in public discourse. But I don't think it is, or at least it opens the debate to the continuum between having no police and having a legit police state. From MY (limited) understanding, this movement is about bringing the dial further away from the right (police state) and more toward the other end, where those funds then get reallocated to social programs that help create a better society and tend to lower crime rates. When you have a healthy and educated population (i.e access to health care and access to higher education for all), people tend to not commit crimes as much. Who knew?
Now the debate used to be about how public funds altogether should be allocated, or how much we should be taxed. But now the citizens are making a recommendation to take some of that police money and spending it on things that help people. But I have to say that this is my interpretation of it, and yours and other right wing people give it another meaning, and so here we are lost in translation.
If you can get a statement from anyone, moreso someone with actual influence like Biden, Pelosi, AOC or any mayor or Governor, saying that entire police forces need to be dismantled entirely, then we can agree on what's being proposed here.
And I'm not saying I agree with defunding police by 20 or 30 or even 50 percent across the board. But this right wing hyperbole of "the left and the Democratic Party wants anarchy!" needs to stop because it is just not true.