What Happened to the Defund the Police Movement?

I live near Baltimore and have met all types of people who have fled the city. None of them ever said that they left because of the police they have ALL said they left because of the criminals.

BLM founders living it large though.

People can’t keep saying “ defund the police” and then are surprised when a police officer takes hours to show up after their emergency call . They are understaffed right now because many cops can’t take it anymore. This is what some of you guys wanted. And it won’t end well . Some neighborhoods are having issues where police offers don’t show up until 2 hours later. You guys asked for this.

People who actually care about their community don't like crime. Imagine that. It's up to the community to look within and fix their pathological behavior.

"What Happened to the Defund the Police Movement?"

I remember when everyone was saying the money for police was gonna go to prevention and rehabilitation instead of punishing people. LMAO, how quickly have things changed! I think that might have been the fastest reversal of opinion/policy ever!

“Defund the police” was a poorly advised rallying cry to begin with. Way too polarizing, not enough nuance, and was never going to get off the ground. There should have been a movement the likes of “fund our streets” that focused on community investment and restorative services. These streets are too wild for the average suburban voter to entertain “defunding” the police.

It is easy to put blame on one side but we need to look at own community. Our community becomes what we allowed it to become

"defund the police" was the wrong slogan for noticing a valid problem. We need to focus the police's scope of work into actual policing, not doing the stuff that mental health professionals should be doing. Also quotas for traffic violations are a huge problem.

Since "defunding" the police became the trend, many cities are now refunding police budgets due to a rampant increase in crimes and drug abuse. I agree to abuses in many Police dept's needed to be stopped and addressed.

The problem with "defund the police" is no advocate has ever articulated what it actually entails. Is it simply the moving of some funds away from traditional law enforcement towards alternative crime fighting means, or is it something more ambitious?

Don’t worry in the next election cycle it will come back, and with some new movement. Then some normal person will say they are the leader of that movement and next thing you know they are living in mansions. Communities that need help guess what? They will still look the same while more people get rich. Politicians use tragedies to their advantage. It’s horrible

The problem with that movement is it was riding on reactions and impulse. It wasn't thought out, its a half-assed plan whose premise went way too far. Even if they weren't actually calling to abolish the police or anything like that, the slogan of "defund the police" comes off as extreme to the average person. It was a poorly-made campaign.

They say it over and over, they dont want police reform, they want community reform and that's what is really needed.

It backfired HARD.

Anytime I hear community activist I turn away lol 😂

"Defund the police" is a moronic slogan. "Improve and reform policing, with more investment in education and mental health" was too complicated for a quick media soundbite though.

We don't talk nearly enough about psychologically SCREENING police. If a bully become a cop so he can bully more viciously but with impunity, you're not going to TRAIN him to be better than that. You can train him on HOW to de-escalate a situation, but you can't train him to WANT to.

What happened to it⁉️

It got defunded and the criminals got bold. Crime crime and more crime. 😂