Follow Up: A Note on Defunding

My previous post attempted to clarify the situation regarding BLM, Looting & Taking the Knee.  Now I want to add a quick word about an issue that is causing some angst-Defunding. 

There are a number of people and local governments who are calling for defunding the police.  The expected reaction was immediate.  Defund the police?  Are you nuts? 

Here's the deal.  Defunding police departments doesn't mean disbanding them.  No one is stupid enough to call for that.  It simply means divert some of the funding from police to other social service agencies.  For example here in Connecticut cities such as New Haven have a similar program.  When there's a domestic disturbance call, police take along a trained social worker to help defuse a potentially violent situation.  Police themselves will often say they simply are not social workers.  They don't have the kind of training needed to handle those kinds of situations. 

I think when you realize the intent of defunding, you'll agree it could be a workable arrangement.  It certainly can't get any worse.