Discussion of “Defund the Police” slogan

[GagHalfrunt]

@Michael_R_Smith

Yeah I think it might make sense to just start forming a parallel police organisation. Try to get the focus right up front. Don’t hire anybody from the old organisation. Run the two in parallel for as long as needed then run the old organisation down, giving them less work and less money until they are gone.

That is what Ukraine did, more or less, although the motivation was to eliminate corruption rather than brutality (and Americans trained the new police). Officers from the old force could join if they were retrained and passed “integrity checks”.

National Police of Ukraine