In less than 24 hours my office has received over 1,000 emails demanding that San Francisco defund the police department
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That’s not what defunding the police means. It means shifting funding from what is currently the police to social worker and other programs that don’t roll up to every problem thinking that force and guns are the most likely solution.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/defunding-the-police-us-what-does-it-mean …
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That’s not what the word “defund” means. To defund is to stop paying for something, entirely.
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Kevin, you think people on this thread don't know the dictionary definition of the word "defund"?
When people use the phrase "defund the police", it is shorthand for shifting resources - iow a marketing and messaging vehicle, not a complete description of a policy.
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