Democrats have only themselves to blame if they lose to "defund the police"

[Humanist_Activist]

109. Most of the public are largely ignorant of the purpose and origins of modern police...

and are also ignorant of how toxic and unreformable police culture is.

I remember looking up NYPD challenge medals, they view themselves as an occupying military force to enforce order, not to protect the public at large.

ON EDIT: In addition, the public at large, the mostly white public at least, take police at their word, regardless as to whether that is warranted or not. There's a narrative out there that a lot of the protests were actually riots instigated by BLM or antifa, when in reality, a large percentage of them were instigated by the Police, as was caught on video. Sometimes so egregiously even the MSM reported on it honestly, but also sometimes not.

And if a window is broken, that's apparently a blank check to use force, up to deadly force, against everyone within a few blocks radius of that broken window.