Re: The NEW "New Normal" DEMS CRAZY IDEA is to defund Police Department! 65% are OPP
Defund the police is not a US Democratic party/DNC idea. It has never been included as part of the platform of that party. But I wouldn't expect right wing reactionaries like Laura Ingraham to get that right.
Most people of all political/voting persuasions know nothing of the proposals for defunding/deconstructing police forces. It has only just now entered the news as a distinct idea. It has been worked on for decades by more forward thinking people than you or I.
Here is a recent article written by Quakers:
6 reasons why it’s time to defund the police
Abolishing free range patrols by armed persons does not mean the end of public safety. Everyone in every community wants their community to be as safe as it can be. Here is the Defund the Police home site:
https://defundthepolice.org
Defunding the police and the deconstruction of police forces was spurred in populist/activist circles in recent times by the 2017 book by Alex Vitale,
The End of Policing. Progressive thought leader, W.E.B. DuBois proposed ending white dominated police forces -- in the 1930s. Angela Davis, still living, was way ahead of her time in proposing defunding/ending police forces.
The Minneapolis city council -- 12 of 13 of which are Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party members -- voted through a veto-proof resolution to get rid of their current police department in favor of a community led effort to keeping peace. So the council members that live in that community, work there, and feel the effects of the racist violence on their own police force decided to end it.