This is how the left eats itself. Holier-than-thou dogma always trumps debate. So what you get is group-think that elevates who can be more radically stupid than the next guy without thinking.
Mine too.
File Transfer Protocol?
The police are there to enforce the laws that politicians and the public ask for. You can't blame the cops for starting drug wars. You have to start blaming politicians and voters who say they want non-violent offenses confronted with the possibility of violence. The moment you require enforcement of a law is the moment you raise the possibility of confrontation and possible violence.
I was having a chat with my brother today who fortunately saw a protest of about 4000 people in his beat back away from potentially violent outcomes.
There's this naive belief that women and other more vulnerable people somehow don't need protection.
Then you get to the idea of volunteer committees to patrol things, a la the Guardian Angels of NYC in the 80s.
Then you realize that to identify the people who are there to respond, they need some form of uniform and badging to be official.
And then they have to face drug gangs, so then maybe they need a gun.
And then maybe the volunteer force is subject to bribes and corruption because the drug gangs might help pay their life bills for their time doing service for the community as a volunteer, so then suddenly they collect a paycheck to keep them more honest.
And suddenly you've dismantled a police force only to recreate it all over again.
Too many people really don't understand the life of a cop. All these defund advocates should put their money where their mouth is and do ride alongs. You see how much a cop's job is stepping in when all the social net failures slip someone through the cracks and the community needs the fire to be put out.