[KittenInABox]

My understanding is that "defund the police" is to advocate that police is no longer the default caller and the default receiver of money when it comes to broad social issues like, say, a mentally ill person acting erratically, or a homeless person is behaving in crisis, or a similar nonviolent occurrence. The money should instead bolster our public health, public education, and social security and child care services. This is in response to the fact that the police broadly get an obscene amount of money and apparently have very little social good to show for it with no accountability.

[chrisseaton]

> My understanding is that "defund the police" is to…

It means different things to different people. Some want to literally abolish police, some want to reduce funding.