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Originally Posted by drakan
Nobody wanted to defund the police and most of the time the conversation was because conservatives were saying that Democrats were saying so no more police. So the conversation never really went beyond that.
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drak man, this just isn't true.
are you saying no democratic lawmakers? are you saying no democratic voters? are you saying no democratic activists?
define your population here.
in any of those groups, there are absolutely discussions and viewpoints along a spectrum of "reform and additional funding is needed" to "we need to reduce funding and allocate elsewhere" to "we need to abolish the police".
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/o...nd-police.html
"Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police. Because reform won't happen" - Mariame Kaba
we can have a discussion as to how prominent or mainstream each of those views are.
i would say kaba's goal of abolition is definitively the minority opinion on the left.