I used to answer calls from a police association with 'IF you could assure me that my contribution would result in better selection, training and supervision of police I'd contribute....' I hang up first
“There has not been a universal defund movement across major cities,” Cooper said. “I think there was a little bit of retooling of the department budgets, but I can’t say that defund has actually played out. The sustained increase in violent crime, the gun violence that we’ve been seeing, and calls from the community that they don’t want less police, they want better police, seems to be resonating.”