From the long irrelevant ACLU, dated June 11, 2020:

Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer

So how’s that going? Let’s check in with CNN (September 25, 2022):

Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime

Shocking. Who, I ask you, who could have possibly foreseen that defunding, abusing, disparaging the police would embolden the criminals?