Defund

After Black Lives Matter protesters demanded that cities “Defund the police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed cut $120 million from the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. This resulted in an increase in crime and the people revolted and ejected the district attorney along with three school board members. Hundreds of officers left and the worst is yet to come. SFPD will be short 825 officers by the end of 2022. Mayor is now refunding the police and asking Washington for help. This same thing happened to many cities across the country including right here in Minneapolis. Here not only did they defund the police but there was a vote to replace the police with some type of social program. Fortunately that was defeated at the ballot box. President Biden is fond of saying he never said defund the police but he did agree to reallocate funds away from the police department. Sounds like a matter of semantics. Did these people take the time to think ahead as to what would happen if they defunded the police.