Editorial: ‘Defund the police’ is losing steam. Good. Genuine reform was always the better idea
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the words were ubiquitous, scrawled on pieces of cardboard held aloft at protests, written on banners unfurled by legions of demonstrators, painted in large letters on city streets.
“Defund the police” became the clarion call for Americans sickened by the indifference toward decades of police abuse meted out against people of color in our nation’s cities.
The phrase has come to mean different things to different people. To some activists, it means nothing less
