They had a lot of budget cuts after 2008, but I don’t think really any city at all ever ‘defunded the police’. Some cities did what the real point of that was, which was to invest in programs like counselors to talk to people in mental health crises vs. armed police showing up.
They had a lot of budget cuts after 2008, but I don’t think really any city at all ever ‘defunded the police’. Some cities did what the real point of that was, which was to invest in programs like counselors to talk to people in mental health crises vs. armed police showing up.