Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0] Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to

Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0] Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to the lite version of defund the police, i.e. transfer certain operations to medical specialists such as mental illness, etc. don't have time to dig as deep into dem support of taxpayer-funded healthcare, but here is one group to pay attention to because they seem to be very realistic, even pragmatic about it. Some interesting podcast interviews coming out of their media: https://pnhp.org/news-category/members-in-the-news/ https://pnhp.org/news-category/members-in-the-news/ https://pnhp.org/kitchen-table-campaign/ https://pnhp.org/kitchen-table-campaign/ [3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/new-york-city-police-funding-social-services/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/new-york-city-police-fundi... [2] https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944938471/minneapolis-shifts-8-million-in-police-funding-but-keeps-force-at-current-level https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944938471/minneapolis-shifts-... [1] https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/civilians-could-replace-police-officers-on-certain-calls-in-fort-worth/287-e1341f87-463e-43cc-86df-438869568b75 https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/civilians-could-repl... [0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/