One rallying cry since the death of George Floyd has been to “defund the police”—an unfortunate phrase, because the right has immediately started saying stuff like “Imagine calling 911…and NO ONE IS THERE. That’s the future liberals want.” In fact the idea of defunding the police is to reallocate some of their budgets, a huge line item for every city and state in America, to (for instance) mental health professionals, so that when a homeless person is erratic, we can help them, not shoot them.
