Why are the police so intimidated by protesters?

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Oh okay. But if the hired higher IQ cops, wouldn't the chances of getting more psychopaths be greater then?

Also a lot of the protestors are saying defund the police and not redirect funds. Unless they are using the wrong vocabulary?

Oh okay I see. But if the protesters keep asking for defunding, the governmors and mayors might misread what they are wanting and actually cut the police's funding, which could lead to more problems then, wouldn't it?

"Defund the police" is short-hand. It gets the point across in the fewest words possible.
The police today are called in to a lot of situations where they don't belong and can do only harm.
Autistic people are a popular target for ignorant cops who do all they can to trigger a panic reaction, then use that as an excuse for assault.
They're also called for mental health issues and, again, they do more harm than good.
If you call an ambulance because Grandpa is having a heart attack, you don't need a cop; that just makes everything worse.
Non-violent "crimes" don't require some guy with a gun -- passing a fake $20 is not an excuse for assault; that should just be a ticket or a summons.
A lot of cops are pumped up on steroids, which makes them violent & crazy.
A lot of cops just like having someone to beat up, and they know society will let them get away with it in minority neighborhoods.
It's not about "bad apples." It's a culture. As a cop, you go along with it or you get out.
On the rare occasion you really need a bunch of thugs on steroids, you can still call a swat team.
Between "Qualified Immunity" and police unions that have gotten so strong, they can literally get away with murder.
Poor people who can't make bail can sit in jail for years before a trial, just for stealing a back pack, and most people never get a trial at all. The innocent are forced to plea bargain. If they had to give everyone a fair trial, it would crash the system.
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The biggest part of the problem is the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, which is how the oligarchs profit from wrongful imprisonment. Some major corporations and some local and state budgets are so dependant on cheap prison labor that to suddenly end this new form of slavery would crash the economy. The rich people would have to give up a lot of free stuff and start paying taxes.
They also use cheap, forced, prison labor to break labor union strikes.
It was deliberately built into the system. They get away with it because the 13th Amendment, which was supposed to END slavery, just shifted from the old chattel slavery to this new form of slavery when they snuck in the phrase, "except as punishment for crime."
The drug war was a racist fraud from the beginning, knowingly created exactly for this purpose. They knew they were lying. It's systemic racism, by design. Rich people still like slavery.
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"Defund the police" means replacing a lot of the cops, in some neighborhoods as by much as half, and replacing them with social workers, medical professionals and others who are more appropriate for the situation. It also means shifting funding to programs that help rather than hurt, or building schools rather than jails.
It also means NOT doing things that don't need doing, like harassing people for no good reason at all, or hauling innocent people off to jail just to feed the prison industrial complex.
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Why are the cops themselves threatened by the protests? Because (1) they know that a lot of them are going to be unemployed soon, and (2) a lot of them are sadistic monsters who love being able to beat up anyone they like, any time they like, and they don't want to give that up.
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To "re-imagine" or "reform" or "restructure" the police isn't good enough. It's all been tried, for decades, and the politicians PRETEND they don't know that their solutions only compound the problems. The word for that is "disingenuous." They know, just like the authors of the 13th Amendment knew what they were doing. Pouring money on top is like white-washing a fence that is rotten to the core. We need to pull it out by the roots, in a way that will actually make a difference, and "Defund the Police."

It's hard to fit all that on a little cardboard sign. So we say, "Defund the Police."

Prison slavery is more profitable than chattel slavery. If you're a major corporation, you get forced labor for pennies per hour, while the tax payer covers the real cost. You don't have to feed and house them, you don't have to round them up and beat them into submission. If they're sick or uncooperative, just throw them back and get more.
The oppression isn't limited to what happens in the prison itself. It also involves the deliberate destruction of the family; degradation of the education system and economic opportunity; the decades of propaganda & cop shows that tell us black men are scary and cops are heroes; the psychology of terrorism when you never know whether your guys are going to make it home; and the general psychology of shame and hopelessness.
It's systemic. It's all intentional.

"We are not responsible for the mental illness that has been inflicted upon our people by the American government, institutions, and those people who are in positions of power...
"Don't talk to us about 'Looting.' Y'all are the looters... Looting is what you do... We learned violence from you..."
~ Tamika Mallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecy0QLVES8

That is how the world should be. That's not the world that is. Most people do NOT get a trial. They are forced to plea bargain, and those who demand a trial are punished, and go to prison, pretty much for life. Of course it's illegal and immoral and unconstitutional. They threw away that old rag years ago.

Chris Hedges On The Prison Industrial Complex -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__15Ybj4kno

(It's all one piece. It all works together.) Chris Hedges | Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt.
(1½ hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__15Ybj4kno

Why Innocent People Plead Guilty | Adnan Sultan | TEDxFurmanU. Mar 18, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiXLqW0TXU

Oh okay thanks. He makes some good points about bale reform that I can agree with. However, when it comes to his examples of real cases, some of the things he sites, he leaves out important details and there are holes in the stories.

He mentions how one person was arrested for a crime and had to wait in jail for three years before the prosecutions office came across the case. But the prosecutor is suppose to be at the arraignment which happens only a few days after you are arrested, tops. So it doesn't make sense why a prosecutor would take three years to find out about this when they normally would have been at the arraignment. He does not explain the arraignment at all in it.

He also says that prosecutors only give one time offers, but he doesn't explain why they would be one time. For example, why would a prosecutor give you a one time offer? If a defendant didn't accept a plea bargain, but then later changed their mind, a prosecutor would still go for it, to avoid a trial. It's not like they are going to say I am going to take this case to trial if the defendant doesn't decide right now? Why be that impulsive and commit to a trial, just because a defendant took longer than a day to decide for example?

Now let's say you are charged with a crime, and you are offered a plea bargain. What you do is say you may accept a plea bargain, but you want to see all the evidence against you first. That way if you are innocent, you know what holes you and your attorney could poke in the case at the preliminary hearing. Now a prosecutor is going to most likely to turn over the evidence, hoping you will still decide to take the plea bargain after looking it over. So why not ask for it?

Plus he doesn't even mention why the defedants didn't even see how the preliminary hearings turned out, before deciding whether or not to take a plea bargain. He skips over the preliminary hearing process entirely in his cases.

He also says that he represented an innocent man, but then

You insist on looking for logic. It's corrupt and illegal and immoral and unconstitutional and they all know it and they don't care.
The system is not broken, it's working exactly the way it's supposed to, to incarcerate as much free labor as possible, and to destroy as many lives and families as possible. Systemic racism is not an accident. These are sick people who really believe they have a right and even an obligation to oppress. And others who go along with it because they have no spine, integrity or a soul.
Prime examples are Biden, who wrote the crime bill that created this mess, and is proud of it; and Harris, a paddy roller who was happy to enforce it, even when she knew certain individuals were innocent. They're pigs.

Well it's not that mean to look at with logic, it's just that the person in the video didn't even mention certain things that were important to those cases. He is withholding important parts, in order to sell it a certain way, so I cannot agree with everything, if certain information is going to be withheld for me to make a judgment call on the system. If you want to talk about how corrupt a system is, you have to be willing to go into more details than he did, in order to ascertain more.