I can answer this,Imagine you have a domestic dispute and are yelling at your wife, a neighbor calls a noise complaint in and a social worker arrives and provides you counseling on the spot, you feel rehabilitated and no longer have the need to yell at your wife. Today what happens is you spend a night in jail and you get a criminal record. Congrats.


The money that was used for militarization of the police is now transferred to providing healthcare for the junkies they keep throwing in prison who then get more drugs there instead of getting off drugs.


Defunding the police looks like Britain and Sweden, you don't need a police man to tell you not to do drugs, you don't need a police man to have an automatic rifle and shoot 300 bullets and miss every single one and hit innocent bystanders that were driving in a high-speed marijuana possession chase.




You don't need a policeman to jail a criminal that robbed you, you just need your money and your stuff back, like I give a fuck about some mugger taking 300 bucks from my wallet, mugger don't need 300 bucks he needs a career and way to pay for living, I need my 300 bucks. Today all I get is that guy goes to prison for 3 years I have to pay for his stay with my tax money and I am out 300 bucks nobody will ever give me that money back, good luck suing the broke dude that robbed you.




The solution is not more money for police, its to get to the core of why the crime happened and prevent it. Reroute the money to that.