Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
As far as I am aware, defunding the police is meant to be about rechanneling the money saved into multi agency community work in poverty hit areas, and therefore reducing the factors that cause crime in the first place. Have a look at the Glasgow example in the 00s if interested as it had a good impact on reducing crime. If you simply defund the police and nothing else, then of course it won't work and would be worse.
Did they defund the police in Glasgow?