defunding the police is just as stupid as defunding the fire department. that’s like taking a child’s parents away because a few parents around the country were bad people. There’s hundreds of millions of people in the United States… some are going to be idiots/assholes. Some of those people are going to be cops therefore some cops will be assholes/idiots, but that doesn’t mean we abolish the position completely. Policing doesn’t stem from slavery, police positions have predated American slavery by hundreds and hundreds of years so that’s also not an argument. There should be either more funding/training or stricter financial transparency on spending with us the tax payers. Education on civil rights should be the main focus at the end of the day. Not pulling over people for going 5 over trying to collect as much revenue as possible (then they are just meter maids with bigger engines). They pull over so many people because all of those stops are recorded.. so if they ever move departments they can see how “valuable” of an asset each officer is. I believe this leads to over policing instead of “protecting and serving” considering I see cops speeding all over and texting more than anyone else