Defunding the police isn't about dismantling law enforcement. In those instances where complete dismantling is even considered it's because the people proposing it have concluded that the police has not only failed to perform its duty, it's done so so catastrophically that restarting from zero is the only option.
Defunding the police is about removing a number of community services that now fall upon the police but the police is not suited to handle from their remit, and shifting the funding for performing those services to agencies that are. Especially since the warrior cop mentality that has taken so much of the USA's police forces makes the sort of community connections that are necessary for performing those services very difficult indeed.
Defunding the police is about removing a number of community services that now fall upon the police but the police is not suited to handle from their remit, and shifting the funding for performing those services to agencies that are. Especially since the warrior cop mentality that has taken so much of the USA's police forces makes the sort of community connections that are necessary for performing those services very difficult indeed.