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"Defund the police" doesn't mean eliminating the police, or reducing their ability to respond to in-progress violence.

It means reducing the scope of the police so that they aren't the ones dealing with things like homelessness and mental illness, things that they usually are not trained to deal with.

Here's a good explanation [1].

[1] https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a33024951/defund-the-p...

It does mean reducing their budget though, and with a potentially long lasting insurrection ahead you either need public police or private...

I mean, as we saw yesterday the USCP doesn't seem to be doing much good with their $460 million budget.

I don't think the reason for their ineptitude was lack of funding.