So because your opinion is they have failed to use the funding appropriately in your mind pull the funding? How about backing that up with statistics? Tell me something of merit before you pull the funding? The Defund the Police movement is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. It obviously does not communicate well either because you have all these people trying to explain it and the explanations all differ depending on the agenda.
Do police require more training in areas of mental health - yes in certain areas it should be very helpful. So if you take away that funding how do they get that training? And you want to send social workers out on police calls? So now the officer has to protect the people and the social worker? That is a non-starter and that has been said by many police chiefs. People think these issues are so easy to fix. More needs to be done for sure but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Most Americans do not want to defund the police and rightfully so. And many from cities who now face more dangerous conditions where they live.
https://fortune.com/2020/07/09/defu...mericans-oppose-defunding-police-departments/