His main point is a straw man, since none of the "defunding" initiatives are as banal as simply taking money away from the entire picture. Defunding has always

His main point is a straw man, since none of the "defunding" initiatives are as banal as simply taking money away from the entire picture. Defunding has always been about reallocating the money to help fix the root causes of criminal behavior in ways that don't involve a bunch of middle aged men in uniforms pretending to be the heroes of their own action movies.