The requests that the protesters are focusing on now are mainly around shifting funding from police departments to other departments to do the same job but with

The requests that the protesters are focusing on now are mainly around shifting funding from police departments to other departments to do the same job but without being armed and dangerous. For instance, house calls can be done by social workers and a separate system of traffic patrollers could give out speeding tickets. “Defunding” is a misnomer that’s easy to say but not really what many protesters want. Also an end on the war on drugs would be a good step too; cost saving plus decreasing the need for police.