It was your assertion, your job to support it. Are you suggesting that budget cuts are equivalent to defunding? The Seattle police department was not defunded. The fringe who popularized the "Defund the Police" slogan meant "abolish by withdrawing all funding." Now they are trying to cover themselves by claiming any budget cut is "defunding."
Your claim would be accurate if you stated that Seattle was one of a handful of cities with plans to drastically cut police funding. City council wanted to cut the budget by 50%. If Austin is typical, some cities are reallocating funds to areas like mental health, and NOT sending cops on mental health calls. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community
I just looked up “defund” and the definition was “to withdraw funds”. So there you go.
Now your job is to prove that the slogan maker used the term exclusively to mean completely 100% removed. Because if they didn’t mean 100% then the Seattle action is a city defunding the police per the slogan.
Yah…I realize that most Dems didn’t buy into it but to claim there wasn’t any truth to it isn’t true. Seattle took it seriously and I think continues to struggle with it.
It indicated that the city council is lowering the police budget for the 2nd straight year.
Are you going to believe me or are you going to actually read the article yourself?
The article is behind a paywall.
There were other articles. Google works for you too, right?
It was your assertion, your job to support it. Are you suggesting that budget cuts are equivalent to defunding? The Seattle police department was not defunded. The fringe who popularized the "Defund the Police" slogan meant "abolish by withdrawing all funding." Now they are trying to cover themselves by claiming any budget cut is "defunding."
Your claim would be accurate if you stated that Seattle was one of a handful of cities with plans to drastically cut police funding. City council wanted to cut the budget by 50%. If Austin is typical, some cities are reallocating funds to areas like mental health, and NOT sending cops on mental health calls. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community
I just looked up “defund” and the definition was “to withdraw funds”. So there you go.
Now your job is to prove that the slogan maker used the term exclusively to mean completely 100% removed. Because if they didn’t mean 100% then the Seattle action is a city defunding the police per the slogan.
Yah…I realize that most Dems didn’t buy into it but to claim there wasn’t any truth to it isn’t true. Seattle took it seriously and I think continues to struggle with it.