Am I missing something?
I believe what communities wish to do concerning their police force is to remove the bigotry, racism, and the targeting of minorities THEN create a police force that does exactly that and only that.... TO POLICE. NOT to judge, NOT to attack, NOT to carry out some personal anti-minority agenda, NOT to exist as some modern day extension of the KKK, but for gods sake JUST DO YOUR JOB.... POLICE. And so, for communities to get to that point of creating a police force that has no alternative agenda nor axe to grind, communities believe that their current dysfunctional police force must be reconstructed from the ground up. New cops, new training, new attitudes, professionals acting as professional. Just SERVE and PROTECT damnit, and leave your racism and bigotry at home.
Communities understand how deep and how long term this perversion of police protection has been going on across communities and across America, so to fix it will be no simple task. You must first defund, tear it all down, then begin again entirely from scratch. This sickness within our policing system runs deep and drastic measures are needed to "hopefully" correct that sickness. Everyone knows... it won't be easy but it must be done. And frankly, it makes sense that this current Whitehouse would object so vocally to any rebuilding since this current Whitehouse is part of the problem. We have many institutions that are part of the problem, and naturally they too will put up great resistance to any rebuilding of our sick sick policing system within America. What is happening with the defunding process is correct. It is the right thing to do. It is the only option and only solution if the system is to be rebuilt and the problem truly fixed. People must understand, this is a TWO PART process, Defund to kill off the sickness, then rebuilt with that new healthy system.