I don't have a source, it's just an educated guess. "Defund Planned Parenthood" was a huge conservative slogan in America. It's possible that the people who coined "Defund the Police" had never heard the other slogan in their entire lives, but they'd have to be living under a rock to do that, because they're left-wing and liberal political activists.
> Can you explain this more thoroughly? (in regards to "paying their own way")
Increasing town revenues through more aggressive enforcement. i.e. you increase the ticket quotas so that cops nail more speeders. In America it's so normalized to break the speed limit that, for example, Tesla self-driving systems let you configure how much your self-driving car will break the speed limit by. So you can reliably increase town revenues by issuing more speeding citations, because everybody does it.
This isn't the only lever you can pull to squeeze money out of your citizens, but it's the most common one.
> I think you are amalgamating the separate actions of several different groups and attempting to attach a single coherent narrative to their collective actions in an effort to excuse everyone involved.
Amalgamating yes, excusing no. Consider it a post-mortem report - "How did we fuck this up".
> We used to just call this "Police Reform." So this all seems like a huge unforced error, then.
I don't have a source, it's just an educated guess. "Defund Planned Parenthood" was a huge conservative slogan in America. It's possible that the people who coined "Defund the Police" had never heard the other slogan in their entire lives, but they'd have to be living under a rock to do that, because they're left-wing and liberal political activists.
> Can you explain this more thoroughly? (in regards to "paying their own way")
Increasing town revenues through more aggressive enforcement. i.e. you increase the ticket quotas so that cops nail more speeders. In America it's so normalized to break the speed limit that, for example, Tesla self-driving systems let you configure how much your self-driving car will break the speed limit by. So you can reliably increase town revenues by issuing more speeding citations, because everybody does it.
This isn't the only lever you can pull to squeeze money out of your citizens, but it's the most common one.
> I think you are amalgamating the separate actions of several different groups and attempting to attach a single coherent narrative to their collective actions in an effort to excuse everyone involved.
Amalgamating yes, excusing no. Consider it a post-mortem report - "How did we fuck this up".
> We used to just call this "Police Reform." So this all seems like a huge unforced error, then.
Yup!
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY