[jklinger410]

Most of the confusion is semantic in nature. Whether defund means remove all funding or just some funding.

I think some radicals wanted to remove all funding, and radicals on the other side latched onto that and spread that as if it were the truth.

Defund the police has mostly been about reallocating budgets between agencies. There are, however, a few specific branches of police that protestors have want shut down, but not to remove policing entirely.