Defund the Police was poorly named. I understood it as reallocate $$$ from XYZ to provide better training in psychological handling (SPED, OD, Suicide) and to hire more counselors and therapists. We have asked police to take on a much larger societal/cultural role than they are adequately prepared to handle. (Very similar situation to teachers)
In Spokane, we had our own tragic death in 2006, of a developely disabled man, Otto Zehm, who went to a local Quik-E-Mart for a chocolate bar, but was killed after a mistaken identity and refusing arrest. Our city covered it up. So many blunders by people in authority. Then in the past 5 years we had a suicide by cop event, in which our cops tazed a man to death who was already suicidal. He needed mental help, and they reacted like he was a danger to society.
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