ironpony wrote:
Oh okay, but that's what I mean. Why would the police listen to the protests and defund themselves, in the sense that why are they threatened and bending the knee to peaceful people?
you're asking for an explanation for something that never happens. The police cant "defund" themselves whether they want to do so, or not.
Its up to the civilian state/city/county, who vote on budgets, to fund or defund any branch of local government, including the police.
So it's the legislatures, and mayors/governors who choose to (or not to) respond to the voters who are protesting - by "defunding the police".
Since were on the subject "defunding the police" is a really bad slogan anyway. Police forces perhaps need to be reshaped in a radical way. So "reimagining the police", or something like that would be a more on mark slogan.