Instead of 'Defund the Police,' Solve All Murders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : By 2021, some of the cities that made the most significant gestures toward cuts to police budgets were reversing themselves.
47% : Indeed, the bipartisan, pan-racial rejection of "defund the police" as a slogan and a policy prescription is inseparable from the surge in murders roiling multiple American cities during the pandemic, recent decades in which falling crime coincided with increases in police funding, and the widespread belief among criminologists that more police officers in a city help reduce crime.
41% : But that's unlikely so long as Black Lives Matter leaders and their allies focus on defunding the police.
36% : "African Americans have suffered from just such a lack of effective criminal justice, and this, more than anything, is the reason for the nation's long-standing plague of black homicides."
35% : The slogan -- shorthand for cutting spending on law enforcement and redirecting it toward social services, or, for more radical proponents, moving toward eventual police abolition -- is a political liability, largely due to justified fears that, if implemented, it would lead to many more murders, assaults, and other violent crimes, disproportionately harming victims in America's most marginalized communities.

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